Shelby Steele Poetry on Why the Thinking Human Male Animal is Captured by Conservatism

“WHAT DREW ME TO CONSERVATISM YEARS AGO WAS THE FACT THAT IT GAVE DISCIPLINE A SLIGHTLY HIGHER STATUS THAN VIRTUE!”

by SHELBY STEELE, Wall Street Journal, January 2011 and earlier;

“ What drew me to conservatism years ago was the fact that it gave discipline a slightly higher status than virtue.  This  meant it could not be subverted by passing notions of the good.  It could be above moral vanity.  And so it made no special promises to me as a minority.  It neglected me in every way except  as a human being who wanted freedom.”

His Wall Street contribution continues emphasizing his more personal experiences regarding his encounter:

(“Until my encounter with conservatism, I had only known the  racial determinism of segregation on the one hand and of white liberalism on the other;   two varieties of white supremacy in which I could only be dependent and inferior.
The appeal of conservatism is the mutuality it asserts between individual and political freedom, its beautiful idea of a free man in a free society.  And it offers minorities the one thing they can never get from liberalism; human rather than racial dignity.”)

Shelby Steele battled racial segregation during his early  formative years.  In a Socialist empire, whether American, Brit, or Soviet Union flavors, the human male, not the human female, is still is born  intellectually, mentally, physically, natively craving discipline over virtue, probably by animal more than a tad.

It’s the animal drive  in us as human males born to be curious, seek understanding, awareness to survive, to be able to explore, inquire, to defend, do defy….unless such drives are knocked out of us at home or by school and university, or by death as  in the good old leftist Soviet Union and Mao’s China.

Shelby Steele continued:

“Conservatism “seeks the discipline of ordinary people rather than the virtuousness of extraordinary people.  The challenge for conservatives today is simply self-acceptance, and even a little pride in the way we flail away at problems with an invisible hand.”

THE HUMAN MALE WAS, IS AN ANIMAL  BORN TO BE A PROBLEM SOLVER NOT TO MOTHER, but TO FATHER TO PROTECT, BUILD, AND INVENT by Nature and Nature’s GOD.   Yet, we are now   living in an America where feminist fascism is imprisoning conservatives