{"id":1701397,"date":"2022-10-18T16:18:38","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T20:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1701397"},"modified":"2022-10-18T16:18:39","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T20:18:39","slug":"an-extraordinarily-useful-vision-of-governance-the-basic-principles-of-conservative-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/an-extraordinarily-useful-vision-of-governance-the-basic-principles-of-conservative-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018An Extraordinarily Useful Vision Of Governance\u2019: The Basic Principles Of Conservative Thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fan-extraordinarily-useful-vision-of-governance-the-basic-principles-of-conservative-thinking%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1701397&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The following is a transcript excerpt from Dr. Jordan Peterson\u2019s conversation with Eric Duhaime on political trends in young people. You can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/podcasts\/the-jordan-b-peterson-podcast\/quebec-and-the-conservative-youth-revolution-eric-duhaime\">listen to<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/episode\/quebec-and-the-conservative-youth-revolution-eric-duhaime\">watch<\/a> the full podcast on DailyWire+.<\/p>\n<p>Podcast time: 39:55<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a principle that governs conservative thinking that\u2019s actually derived from the Catholic Church, and then even more deeply, derived from an older biblical tradition based on the Old Testament Exodus story, that proper governance \u2014 proper distribution of responsibility \u2014 should follow the principle of subsidiarity. Edmund Burke developed this as well. It\u2019s a very good notion, and I think it\u2019s correct. It\u2019s one of the things that attracts me in some fundamental sense to conservative thinking.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine a state where there\u2019s a single executive who has all the power and the people have none. You would think of that as a tyranny, and that\u2019s obviously not desirable. And then you might think, \u2018What\u2019s the alternative to a tyranny?\u2019 You might say, \u2018Well, direct democracy where the voice of the people rules supreme and the leader must follow the whims of the crowd.\u2019 But the problem with that is that it\u2019s not that easy to figure out what the crowd thinks, and the entire system can fall prey to suddenly arising, poorly organized, deviant impulses.<\/p>\n<p>So what the founders of the American state did, and many other states as well, is set up a series of intermediary structures of power. You can sort of list them up hierarchically. There would be the domain of responsibility of the individual. There would be the domain of the responsibility of the married couple, of the family, of the local community, then the town, then the state or province, and then the country. Each of those levels would be requested to take as much responsibility for what they could at the local level. The relationship between all those levels should be governed by the principle that if it can be decided at a lower level \u2014 then it should be. <\/p>\n<p>The reason that that\u2019s useful is twofold. One is that it\u2019s a really good way of delegating responsibility. It\u2019s very efficient if everyone plays their role. The second is \u2014 this is another thing the conservatives really have on their side \u2014 if the state does everything for you, let\u2019s say, well, in a sense you\u2019re secure, although you\u2019re not because you\u2019re beholden to the benevolence of the state. That can be taken away arbitrarily. But the downside is \u2014 this is one of the downsides of universal basic income proposals \u2014 it\u2019s like, what the hell is there left for you to do if the state does everything for you? Well, you\u2019re secure. But what\u2019s your life, then? You have no purpose. If the purpose of life \u2014 and this is another thing that the more libertarian conservatives could be offering \u2014 imagine that the purpose of your life isn\u2019t security and satiation because you\u2019re not just an overgrown infant. Imagine instead that the purpose of your life is something like responsible, productive, generous adventure.<\/p>\n<p>Then the call would be: Make space for people to manifest that in the particularities of their own life. And then everyone has a real part to play, and no one in some real sense is subordinate to anyone else. There would be a hierarchical structure, and some people like you would be leading at the more abstract levels. But your power would be \u2014 your authority and your responsibility \u2014 would be properly delimited and everything else everybody else was doing all the way down the hierarchy right to the level of running their individual enterprise would in some sense be just as meaningful and just as crucial. That strikes me as an extraordinarily useful vision of governance, especially in the aftermath of the COVID fiasco.<\/p>\n<p>To hear the rest of the discussion, continue by listening or watching this episode on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/watch\/browse\">DailyWire+<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jordanbpeterson.com\/\">Dr. Jordan B. Peterson<\/a> is a clinical psychologist and professor emeritus at the University of Toronto. From 1993 to 1998 he served as assistant and then associate professor of psychology at Harvard. He is the international bestselling author of Maps of Meaning, 12 Rules For Life, and Beyond Order. You can now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/podcasts\/the-jordan-b-peterson-podcast\">listen<\/a> to or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/watch\/jordan-peterson\">watch<\/a> his popular lectures on DailyWire+.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a transcript excerpt from Dr. Jordan Peterson\u2019s conversation with Eric Duhaime on political trends in young people. You can listen to or watch the full podcast on DailyWire+. 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