Conserve and Rule: Conservatism in the 22nd Century

... rejecting the new, Russia will be able to resolve the eternal East–West dichotomy with greater ease: conservative concepts are much more in tune with the ideas of Khomeini than with the fading light of European liberalism. The more radical the future technological changes, the more relevant the conservative attitude to a qualitative change of life. Conservatism, of course, will take very different forms in the United States and Europe. One hundred years from now, the religious references characteristic of the classical version of ideology may be replaced by the idea of a civil cult – that,...