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I'm not saying it's a mistake. I'm saying it's not possible. You create something new. You cannot return to the past. The past was created by different people with different pasts from us. We have a different future from them. We cannot recreate the world that they had. We're going to create something different. It might be better, it might be worse. But we can't go backwards. When conservatism is at its best, it's questioning and pushing back on progress that might be negative. When it's at its worst, it is pure nostalgia. Can't go back and it's a trap. We can learn from the past and create a new future. That's it.
Monarchy 2.0*, whatever. Some small-state duke-ship, we all pay homage/service to a dude who cares for the land and its people and inherits the power.
Maybe we call it, Enlightened monarchy. Whatesvs
I might sound pedantic, but when people hear monarchy, they think the king of England, some hereditary thing that is silly to them. This is a very anti American way of thinking. We're well on our way to what you described functionally with corporations and capitalism. Look at Jeff Bezos and Amazon and all the services that they provide and how much power they have. I'm not even saying any of this to s to slam Amazon. much of this power and wealth they have acquired by solving people's problems in ways that other companies couldn't or wouldn't. That said, it's not gonna solve all of our problems and it it isn't going to fill the moral void in our societies. Which I believe is one of the root problems that we keep trying to fix with government and politics. And we can't.
Capitalist oligarchy technocracy, maybe?
why would it be backwards? If you make a wrong turn, it's not a mistake to backtrack in search for a better path.