The wonderful Peter Yang
Conservative Western Ideology VS Confusious ideology, who is right?
March 3rd 2010 04:53
One thing our society frequently refer to conservative ideology is "Good old fashion conservative ideology."
Conservative ideology are frequently ideas that we were taught to believe in since we are a child, in prior to we have a chance to develop any ideas to begin with and we just passively absorb and spend the rest of our life carrying around these believes, believing in them passively, without ever question them. This are frequently been seen in communist countries too, where they brainwash children in school, to a particular set of value and children grew up passively believing these ideals without questioning them.
But the truth is that, conservative ideology is not necessary right. Ideas such as e.g. racism and sexism are all known to be a part of our coservative ideology and the conservative ideology of other cultures too, but they are definitly wrong. But conservative ideology is not necessary wrong they can be right too. e.g. you should not murder people or you should not have sex with other people's wife are also part of our conservative ideology too and they are right.
In other word, while we should not passively absorb everything conservative ideology ever told us, we should not rebel against it either. Instead, what we should be doing is to take our conservative ideologies out in the open and examing them base on facts and figures objectively and see whether they are right or wrong.
It is also important to understand different culture have different conservative idologies and they frequently clash with each other if you put them into comparison e.g. in europe we believe in Divin right of the King where in the middle east, they believe a king is a public servant.
Today, we are going to take a few western conservative ideologies into comparison with Confusious ideology and see who is right and who is wrong.
Here in the western conservative ideology, we believe in the concept of King is god's given right and we frequetnly refers to the Royal and none royal relationship to be Royals and Commoners.
In Confuscious ideology they believe a nation's policy should not put the interest of the King on the top but should put the interest of the people ahead of the King.
(Now, before our conservatives start accusing Confuscious to be a communist, lets start examing this base on the fact.)
Before, we began I must tell you a very important and valid ideal. The only thing that is relevant to make determination in regards to anything are the fact and figures and all determination should be made base on facts and figures, objectively only. Everything else are irrelevant trash. Take science for example, a theory is merely a theory and a theory can be wrong and we should not take a theory as a fact unless we have prove for it to be correct.
So now, lets get back to our original topic.
Firstly, I want to explain to you the concept of Signified and Signifier.
A Signifier is a linguistic term that signified an idea, but it have no real connection with the idea it Signified. For the example, the word Dog signified the idea of Dogness, but it have no real connection with a dog itself.
The term King, really only signified an idea but have no real connection wiht the man himself.
If we only make determination base on the facts and figures objectively, only and ignore everything else (As they are irrelevant.) it should soon become clear to you, that in reality a King and a President should be the exact same thing, the only difference is that in a democractic goverment structure, it is usualy call a President, Prime Minister or in the Acient Rome, Ceasor. In a dictator or semi dictatorship goverment structure, it is traditionally refers to as a King or an Emperor, whether good or bad dictator.(If any of you ever play StarCraft then remeber the character Acrturest Max, [I think that is how to spell his name] he is a perfect example.) But basically it is the exact same thing.
The concept of Royalty on the other hand, it is really something that is socially constructed, it doesn't exist by itself. The Royals are only royal because we believe they are royal, the day we seize believeing is the day they seize to be royal.
Of course, we can not denire the existence of Culture Capitals. The Culture Capital of a person, is the social status of that person. For example, the Culture Capital of Barack Obama is naturally different from a high school teacher and the cultre capital of a high school teacher will once again be different from a stripper and we can not denire the fact the member of the royal family do have pretty high culture capital in the current society, but that doesn't change the fact the concept of royalty is socially constructed.
So, back to our original question Conservative western idea believe in King is god's given right and divin right of the king, where Confuscious ideology believe that a nation's policy should not put the interest of the King on the top but should put the interest of the people ahead of the King.
So, who is more correct.
While because firstly, although we can not denire the royals do have a higher cultre capital then most people in the world and that they are the family or extended family of the King and Queen, the concept of royalty itself is socially constructed and only exist because we believe it exist, so in reality the royals are just commoners like the rest of us, nothing more.
Secondly, because stricly saying a King and a President should be the exact same thing.
I have to say, Confuscious ideology is more correct then in comparison to conservative ideology, on this one.
But don't feel bad, Western Conservative ideology have good valid things too for example, isn't it Jesus who said that we should love our enemy?
And Confuscious ideology have some wrong ideas too. e.g. Confuscious ideology is known to be really sexist.
So there you go
Conservative ideology are frequently ideas that we were taught to believe in since we are a child, in prior to we have a chance to develop any ideas to begin with and we just passively absorb and spend the rest of our life carrying around these believes, believing in them passively, without ever question them. This are frequently been seen in communist countries too, where they brainwash children in school, to a particular set of value and children grew up passively believing these ideals without questioning them.
But the truth is that, conservative ideology is not necessary right. Ideas such as e.g. racism and sexism are all known to be a part of our coservative ideology and the conservative ideology of other cultures too, but they are definitly wrong. But conservative ideology is not necessary wrong they can be right too. e.g. you should not murder people or you should not have sex with other people's wife are also part of our conservative ideology too and they are right.
In other word, while we should not passively absorb everything conservative ideology ever told us, we should not rebel against it either. Instead, what we should be doing is to take our conservative ideologies out in the open and examing them base on facts and figures objectively and see whether they are right or wrong.
It is also important to understand different culture have different conservative idologies and they frequently clash with each other if you put them into comparison e.g. in europe we believe in Divin right of the King where in the middle east, they believe a king is a public servant.
Today, we are going to take a few western conservative ideologies into comparison with Confusious ideology and see who is right and who is wrong.
Here in the western conservative ideology, we believe in the concept of King is god's given right and we frequetnly refers to the Royal and none royal relationship to be Royals and Commoners.
In Confuscious ideology they believe a nation's policy should not put the interest of the King on the top but should put the interest of the people ahead of the King.
(Now, before our conservatives start accusing Confuscious to be a communist, lets start examing this base on the fact.)
Before, we began I must tell you a very important and valid ideal. The only thing that is relevant to make determination in regards to anything are the fact and figures and all determination should be made base on facts and figures, objectively only. Everything else are irrelevant trash. Take science for example, a theory is merely a theory and a theory can be wrong and we should not take a theory as a fact unless we have prove for it to be correct.
So now, lets get back to our original topic.
Firstly, I want to explain to you the concept of Signified and Signifier.
A Signifier is a linguistic term that signified an idea, but it have no real connection with the idea it Signified. For the example, the word Dog signified the idea of Dogness, but it have no real connection with a dog itself.
The term King, really only signified an idea but have no real connection wiht the man himself.
If we only make determination base on the facts and figures objectively, only and ignore everything else (As they are irrelevant.) it should soon become clear to you, that in reality a King and a President should be the exact same thing, the only difference is that in a democractic goverment structure, it is usualy call a President, Prime Minister or in the Acient Rome, Ceasor. In a dictator or semi dictatorship goverment structure, it is traditionally refers to as a King or an Emperor, whether good or bad dictator.(If any of you ever play StarCraft then remeber the character Acrturest Max, [I think that is how to spell his name] he is a perfect example.) But basically it is the exact same thing.
The concept of Royalty on the other hand, it is really something that is socially constructed, it doesn't exist by itself. The Royals are only royal because we believe they are royal, the day we seize believeing is the day they seize to be royal.
Of course, we can not denire the existence of Culture Capitals. The Culture Capital of a person, is the social status of that person. For example, the Culture Capital of Barack Obama is naturally different from a high school teacher and the cultre capital of a high school teacher will once again be different from a stripper and we can not denire the fact the member of the royal family do have pretty high culture capital in the current society, but that doesn't change the fact the concept of royalty is socially constructed.
So, back to our original question Conservative western idea believe in King is god's given right and divin right of the king, where Confuscious ideology believe that a nation's policy should not put the interest of the King on the top but should put the interest of the people ahead of the King.
So, who is more correct.
While because firstly, although we can not denire the royals do have a higher cultre capital then most people in the world and that they are the family or extended family of the King and Queen, the concept of royalty itself is socially constructed and only exist because we believe it exist, so in reality the royals are just commoners like the rest of us, nothing more.
Secondly, because stricly saying a King and a President should be the exact same thing.
I have to say, Confuscious ideology is more correct then in comparison to conservative ideology, on this one.
But don't feel bad, Western Conservative ideology have good valid things too for example, isn't it Jesus who said that we should love our enemy?
And Confuscious ideology have some wrong ideas too. e.g. Confuscious ideology is known to be really sexist.
So there you go
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