In December, Elon Musk posted on X, "The Blank Slate fallacy is the root of much evil."
What is the Blank Slate? Do liberals really believe that all human beings are equal — fungible, indistinguishable, replaceable?
Here's a history of tabula rasa, and why this false anthropology is to blame for intolerable policies like mass migration and hate speech laws.
Watch this video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/lSpE8bvaFo8
For more on the post-war consensus: https://connortomlinson.substack.com/p/are-zoomers-really-the-groyper-generation
Works cited:
- John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
- John Locke, Two Treatises of Government
- Yoram Hazony, Conservatism: A Rediscovery
- Patrick Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed
- Jean Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on Inequality
- Jean Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
- Emily B. Finley, The Ideology of Democratism
- Clare Jambers, Sex, Culture, and Justice: The Limits of Choice
- R.R. Reno, Return of the Strong Gods
- John Gray, 'Why I am not a post-liberal': https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/10/how-to-save-british-liberalism
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