¶ Conservatism
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Conservatism:
“. . . Classical scientists assumed that their second law of thermodynamics, called entropy, which shows that every system is continually losing energy, means that the universe as a unitary system is continually losing energy and must dissipate eventually to self-extinction. Because of this twentieth the classical scholarly world at the turn of the/century assumed that the running down, of course, included our economic wealth. Therefore, wealth must be inexorably and continually depleting. This gave rise to the conservatives who, having wealth, abhorred spending which seemed obviously to accelerate the exhaustion of their advantage.”
¶ Citations
- NASA Speech. p. 26. Jun’66
