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Talk:Essay:Best New Conservative Words (view source)
Revision as of 22:31, September 7, 2013
, 22:31, September 7, 2013→the word "conservatism" appears to have dropped in usage since the 1960s: new section
::No worries. In that case we should change "idealist" to "idealism" and correct the date. Incidentally, the date listed was for philosophical idealism, ie. the believe that reality is made up of nothing more than ideas. Idealism in the sense of representing things in their "ideal" form came much later. [[User:WilcoxD|WilcoxD]] 21:55, 30 June 2013 (EDT)
::No worries. In that case we should change "idealist" to "idealism" and correct the date. Incidentally, the date listed was for philosophical idealism, ie. the believe that reality is made up of nothing more than ideas. Idealism in the sense of representing things in their "ideal" form came much later. [[User:WilcoxD|WilcoxD]] 21:55, 30 June 2013 (EDT)
== the word "conservatism" appears to have dropped in usage since the 1960s ==
The word "conservatism" appears to have dropped in usage in book since the 1960s according to the massive database of 500 billion words in Google books: [http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=conservatism&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share= Google engram data - conservatism].
This would appear to falsify the conservative words hypothesis.
But given the massive debt run up by liberals, the swell of liberalism since the 1960s will likely dry up when severe fiscal austerity hits the Western World. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 18:31, 7 September 2013 (EDT)