1 rich Libsyn https://www.libsyn.com 90 600 Join Josh Lewis and Bob Burch as they explore the surprisingly nuanced idea of equality and show why conservatives have valued variety over equality. &amp;nbsp; Visions of the future are often replete with uniformity not (currently) seen on earth.&amp;nbsp; Star Trek foretells a future in which barriers of culture, religion, class, nationalities, and politics have given way to global unity at times extending beyond even the human race.&amp;nbsp; The conservative recognizes that such a world wouldn’t be one of living long and prospering, but an authoritarian dystopia obliterating the varieties that make civilization a possibility. &amp;nbsp; The conservative is a wet blanket on starry-eyed fantasies of a world where distinctions in&amp;nbsp; currency, class, and cultures melt away.&amp;nbsp; The conservative is that dreary realist in the room crushing dreams of a society in which human equality has been extended to both outcomes and incomes.&amp;nbsp; The conservative is a killjoy who scoffs at notions of a government capable of administering perfect social justice.&amp;nbsp; But, in the end, it is the conservative who defends with his dying breath Beauty and Virtue in danger of succumbing to some radical’s ideological vision of a cold, narrowing world of equality. &amp;nbsp; It may sound laudable to insist on a broad definition of equality for all, but the conservative rightly recognizes the institution of government is ill-equipped to carry out this lofty goal.&amp;nbsp; Much like wantonly declaring there will be peace leaves a nation all the more vulnerable to war, declaring there will be no inequalities leaves a people vulnerable to the machinations of social experimentation.&amp;nbsp; Noble Laureate Milton Friedman, in his 1978 lecture at Stanford University, observed that “a society that aims for equality before liberty will end up with neither equality nor liberty.&amp;nbsp; And a society that aims first for liberty will not end up with equality, but it will end up with a closer approach to equality than any other system that has ever been developed.” &amp;nbsp; Because conservatives hold that mankind is as much a spiritual creation as a biological organism, they reject efforts to bring about a social utopia through mechanical or scientific means.&amp;nbsp; Such attempts to reduce men to machines is seen in the progressive visions depicting our future.&amp;nbsp; Individuality is swallowed up in uniformity to such a degree that everyone wears a similar uniform in a society where all racial, religious, and cultural differences on entire planets are obliterated.&amp;nbsp; The last “prejudices” that exist are between alien races.&amp;nbsp; Uniformity, a classless society, the obliteration of cultural diversity—such is the endgame of a worldview devoid of the constraints of conservatism.&amp;nbsp; Yet history has shown us time and again, these lofty aims inevitably lead to new and even more savage forms of inequalities. Saving Elephants | Millennials defending &amp; expressing conservative values https://www.savingelephantsblog.com/ <iframe title="Libsyn Player" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/11084462/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/forward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/88AA3C/" height="90" width="600" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe> https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/content/50804675