https://pedro.pjrt.dev/en/tags/philosophy/ Recent content in philosophy on Pedro Rodriguez Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us All rights reserved Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://pedro.pjrt.dev/en/posts/2026-10-08-wilhoits-law-and-human-nature/ Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://pedro.pjrt.dev/en/posts/2026-10-08-wilhoits-law-and-human-nature/ I keep coming back to Wilhoit’s Law quite often, but there’s something that has always bothered me about it. Wilhoit states that conservatism is the “only political system that exists”, and that anticonservatism is the only real alternative. And while anticonservatism has never existed, we clearly try to implement it: that’s what all the religions and political ideas like communism are trying to get to. While I do agree with Wilhoit’s spectrum (I find it more informative than the usual left-right spectrum we see in political discourse), I can’t help but ask why: why is Conservatism the default?