Confession of a Baen non-reader

[Bob Schroeck]

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Wow, Bob, think you could come up with a more offensive .sig?

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Easily. Perhaps this is a bit more to your liking?

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The difference between the conservative and the reactionary: The true conservative views change that has already happened as a fait accompli and focuses his attention on managing change that is about to happen. The reactionary, on the other hand, is terrified of or offended by anything that isn't exactly as it was in his childhood, and wants to undo it all until he no longer feels threatened. The conservative acknowledges that change happens, but intends to see that it happens at a comfortable pace. The reactionary, on the other hand, wants everything to be petrified, frozen in place, so that his interests and his complacency are never ambushed by the unexpected.

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Or perhaps this:

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The different shades of political leaning can be typified by their attitudes toward the rate of change in the world around them. The radical is speeding toward the New at a breakneck pace; the liberal accepts the New at the pace it sets for itself; the conservative wants to slow the approach to a speed that he is comfortable with; and the reactionary wants to go in reverse.

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Note that there are distinctions made between the conservative and the reactionary. Because the reactionary is so typified, do not make the mistake of assuming all of the Right is being excoriated.-- Bob
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One of the primary differences between the Left and the Right is their attitude toward the Future. The Radical wants the Future to have gotten here yesterday. The Reactionary wants the Future quietly shot and the corpse buried where no one can find it.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.