Welcome to Douglas Wilson's The Plodcast, presented by Canon Press.

Yeah. Yes, God, God, God don't never change.

So welcome to the Plodcast this is episode

297

297 I'm Douglas Wilson and I am glad you decided to come here today so I want to

begin by talking about affection for your people.

Affection for your people. And I want to talk about the impact that affection for your people,

that is, for your children, for your spouse, for your extended family, for your

tribe, and so forth.

Why this is a profound political statement.

There's a difference between the secular liberal approach to political theory and the conservative

approach to political theory. As Urom Hazoni points out in his book, Conservatism, a Rediscovery, which I'm going to be reviewing

in another episode of the podcast here, he points out that basically secular

liberalism is an a priori rationalistic abstract system that you have this abstraction that says that

consent is the justifying principle of all political arrangements and that when you have that consent,

you can reason deductively from that and into all kinds of whatever the political arrangement

the people want.

The conservative approach is more empirical.

That is, you take men and women as they come, and men and women as they come are arranged in families.

So this whole thing goes back to social contract theory where people like Locke and Rousseau and Hobbs sort of postulate this hypothetical

parliament that never actually met historically.

And then in this Parliament, we seated a certain number of our rights

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