A dear friend of mine pointed out that my thoughts yesterday may come off as somewhat harsh to pretty much everyone reading them. In asking what I was trying to accomplish through the essay, my friend pointed out something that I did not make plain yesterday, but which I meant to. Mainly, the arguments that I am making are about conservatives, not liberals. In many ways this could be seen as me attacking my own side, however I don’t think of it so much as attacking as I would like to refer to it as constructively building up. The arguments that I am making would not make much sense to a liberal at all. Modern liberalism might as well be called modern relativism and therefore there can be no “good” or “best.” Directives toward liberal chosen ends of course exist in liberal agendas, but are argued with the underlying claim that “everyone agrees,” and therefore there need be no discussion of what is good or best. (For a very obvious example, take a look at the liberal line on “global warming”).  

     In a sense, the liberal leg to stand on represents no leg at all. Liberalism necessarily is eventually defined as the equalizing of all cultures, beliefs, and lines of thought. Therefore the liberals stand on something, but that something is literally made up of an equality of “nothing.” There can be no best, no good, because all individual ideas of the best, all individual “goods” are equal.

     What I am arguing through a conservatism that actually interlays one’s life is that we as conservatives are now currently living life as it is defined by liberals. In order for us to have a leg to stand on in making arguments to others, this needs to stop, or else we are the same hypocrites that we claim liberals are. We need to begin living our lives as if there is an objective good that can be seen through a combination of discovery through reason and revealed intentions of a higher power. Only from this will conservatives, steeped in the wisdom of history, be able to begin representing a viable challenge to the culture once again.