I don't think the "modern meaning crisis" thesis is conservative or liberal. Sociologists have been pointing to this problem for over a century. Yes, conservatives capitalize on this problem. But that doesn't mean we should give up on liberal humanistic values. We need to find a way to defend them that's sustainable, given the problems with modernity. In my writings I criticize both conservatives and liberals, for very different reasons, although I'm much harsher on conservatives.

I agree, though, that liberal values are emergent and needn't reduce to natural rights. We create values, although I argue elsewhere that some aesthetic values may be objective (given a pantheistic re-enchantment of nature, which might make for a looming transhuman mindset). Nature creates and develops itself, after all.