Edmund Burke is often seen as a forefather of modern conservatism. He’d have been appalled at people sailing…

Edmund Burke is often seen as a forefather of modern conservatism. He’d have been appalled at people sailing under that banner today. Some critical points here. /1 Taken from: https://t.co/r0Gf4LC1Ks https://t.co/KVJ1SYiBap

The general assault on culture itself, on inherited tradition and custom. Modern conservatives have forgotten Burke’s argument for conserving in the first place. Not to prevent change. But to recognise that what we inherit has been road-tested, over generations. /2 https://t.co/SCDNuyMSMX

Stuff that worked, through suffering and trial, and survived to be transmitted to future generations. Like your own body. It works because the stuff that didn’t work didn’t survive our evolution. /3 https://t.co/KSnW8cWR7F

Modern conservatives smash, they disrupt, for the purpose of replacing inherited custom and tradition with themselves. They’re not conservatives at all. Their main target is TRUST. “Trust between citizens and civil authority”. /4 https://t.co/B31Xxl235q

Yesterday I shared just one of the local think tanks, whose sole mission is that space. To destroy the trust in our civic institutions. In that case, public health. Social media more generally is a thermonuclear assault on this trust. /5

That’s what these platforms do. Strip away inherited customs and traditions, and replace them with a hierarchy of influence. Influencers replace custom and tradition. A recipe for total social collapse. /6

As I call it, it’s social dysautonomia. Like trying to do your own digestion, circulation and respiration. A society that destroys its inherited institutions is terminal. /end https://t.co/1BakAKPP1o