I silently think I have conservative political values, yet my private lifestyle is anything but. In real life, I generally expouse fairly conservative views too, in contrast to my online posting behaviours. It’s one reason I am hesistant to be completely transparent about my LessWrong/reddit identities and my every day physical world identity.
I reckon it’s okay to have different attitudes to public and private life, since governance is differant than running your own life. However, the hypocrisy kinda unnerves me. My intuition is that conservative aesthetics make me less anxious. People around me will be more predictable and that’s a society I will feel safer in. But, I don’t trust the world to provide for me an acceptable life, so I life a free life of experimentation privately. Should I redefine my values or lifetyle?
Is conservatism something you appreciate aesthetically? A tribe you like belonging to more than the “liberal” tribe? Something closer or farther away from what you perceive to be reality than the alternatives?
I don’t know how to give advice based on the question as you’ve stated it. Or, rather, my advice would be to pose a better question, not necessarily here, but to yourself. Figure out where the conflicts are and evaluate each one individually, instead of generalizing to all of them.
One possible interpretation of this is that you are more liberal when surrounded by people whose judgement you trust—which is a sane and defensible position. You should give more trustworthy (and more rational) people more leeway in their behaviors.
I silently think I have conservative political values, yet my private lifestyle is anything but. In real life, I generally expouse fairly conservative views too, in contrast to my online posting behaviours. It’s one reason I am hesistant to be completely transparent about my LessWrong/reddit identities and my every day physical world identity.
I reckon it’s okay to have different attitudes to public and private life, since governance is differant than running your own life. However, the hypocrisy kinda unnerves me. My intuition is that conservative aesthetics make me less anxious. People around me will be more predictable and that’s a society I will feel safer in. But, I don’t trust the world to provide for me an acceptable life, so I life a free life of experimentation privately. Should I redefine my values or lifetyle?
I have liberal politics and choose to live a very restrained personal life. I don’t see any incompatibility. Why do you feel hypocritical?
Oversimplifying:
Liberals say “do what you like”. If you are liberal and choose not to do X, Y, and Z then you are not violating any of your espoused principles.
Conservatives say “don’t do X, Y, or Z”. If you are conservative and choose to do X, Y, and Z then you are violating your espoused principles.
(I repeat, the above is an oversimplification, and in fact there are things most liberals say not to do and most conservatives don’t object to.)
Is conservatism something you appreciate aesthetically? A tribe you like belonging to more than the “liberal” tribe? Something closer or farther away from what you perceive to be reality than the alternatives?
I don’t know how to give advice based on the question as you’ve stated it. Or, rather, my advice would be to pose a better question, not necessarily here, but to yourself. Figure out where the conflicts are and evaluate each one individually, instead of generalizing to all of them.
Yes
False choice. In Australia, the liberal and cosnervative tribes are one in the same for historic reasons. I’m from Australia.
It’s a reality of possible utilities from the value system rather than reality reality of predictive validity
I’ll meditate on that
Ok
One possible interpretation of this is that you are more liberal when surrounded by people whose judgement you trust—which is a sane and defensible position. You should give more trustworthy (and more rational) people more leeway in their behaviors.
I like how that sounds