I know 50 and 60 year old people who actually believe in gay marriage, women's choice, gun control, diversity in workforce and many other progressive matters. you dont become a republican just because you become old... however I have to say that progressives and conservatives are not necessarily democrats or republicans ... the difference comes from the values they have and how they perceive the decisions that our governments make in our behalf.
The conformity of today's progressives, rallying around a president who when he's not appointing delusional Wall St. free-market zealots and war criminals to his cabinet, he's using flying killer robots to indiscriminately blow up women and children, or expanding the state's power to detain and/or simply kill anybody he wants, is a real, present capitulation to state power that is, I think, far more dramatic and shameful that your hypotheticals (which, I get it, you're kind of joking).
Also, w/r/t your last paragraph: case closed? I think it makes sense to say that learning to use a tool involves a process of internalizing the tool's logic but that doesn't mean you actually become the tool. Having learned to use computers doesn't mean that our brains ARE harddrives. It just seems like it because we've learned how to use them and there's so many of them around.
(For anybody interested in understanding actual conservatism: there's a guy named Cory Robin you might be interested in checking out. He wrote a book called The Reactionary Mind, where he elaborates a theory of conservatism that begins with the idea that conservatism is essentially, "a defense of the private life of power". In other words, it comes from a feeling of having power and seeing it threatened. In this formulation, conservatism appears as a defense of the hierarchies that leftist egalitarian social movements attempt to dismantle, like feminism, civil rights, LGBTQ rights movements, etc.)
Also, Sex robots should be called "sexbots" because it's more fun to say.
(it would be absolutely perfect if the female had 'The World' tattooed on her somewhere.)
btw, I really want to know what SPACEJOBS are....
Also, w/r/t your last paragraph: case closed? I think it makes sense to say that learning to use a tool involves a process of internalizing the tool's logic but that doesn't mean you actually become the tool. Having learned to use computers doesn't mean that our brains ARE harddrives. It just seems like it because we've learned how to use them and there's so many of them around.
(For anybody interested in understanding actual conservatism: there's a guy named Cory Robin you might be interested in checking out. He wrote a book called The Reactionary Mind, where he elaborates a theory of conservatism that begins with the idea that conservatism is essentially, "a defense of the private life of power". In other words, it comes from a feeling of having power and seeing it threatened. In this formulation, conservatism appears as a defense of the hierarchies that leftist egalitarian social movements attempt to dismantle, like feminism, civil rights, LGBTQ rights movements, etc.)