Dear Nick,
I am writing a short letter after skimming your Sky News piece, “Peter Dutton is steering the Voice ‘No’ campaign to victory over cancel culture by refusing to play the role of a troglodyte conservative”. I make only a sincere plea to stop fuelling an unintelligible culture-history war and where I have already outlined in detailed why this culture-history warrior thinking is not merely unintelligible, but misguided in understanding all the intellectual traditions involved; in other words, it is an entanglement of ideas which completely misunderstands ideologies (in the proper meaning of the term) including legitimate conservative thinking.
What is particularly difficult to understand is your populist attack on progressivism when the progressivism of ‘The Voice‘ speaks so directly to conservative valuing of a compassionate society and one where reconciliation and harmony are far more important than the politics of suspicion you are currently promoting.
Next time, before you go off on a warrior rant, read my article carefully and think about what I am saying. I only ask you that fairmindedness.
Kind regards,
Neville.
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Understanding history is philosophy in practice
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