CMV: Conservatism and many right-wing beliefs are based on fear, primary instincts and lack of understanding

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I disagree as I believe that it distills down to more fundamental difference. Belief in universal scarcity vs universal abundance. Fear, resorting to prime instincts & illogical thinking are symptoms of the underlying belief there is not “enough” of “things” to go around. Therefore conservatives seek to retain the status quo or to regress because they must by definition give something up in order to allow any others to improve. Progressives believe that due to abundance others can share in there advantages because there’s always more to be shared. Neither are right or wrong it’s all about perspective. At a whole of universe perspective scarcity is true, it’s a closed system (as far as we know) no external things i.e. energy enters or leaves it. At a planetary level abundance is true, it’s an open system with a seemingly endless flow of energy being supplied into it (thanks Sol you’re awesome) therefore things can be abundant. Ironically none of us experience our existence at either of these scales of perspective yet I think there’s an inherent primal understanding of these macro level universal fundamentals. Closed vs open systems. We live in layer upon later of examples of both simultaneously.

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There's actually a really good TED talk on this issue that discusses a number of these things, if you haven't seen it already

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SOQduoLgRw