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"World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation."
Marshall McLuhan, Culture is Our Business (1970)
"The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks."
Lord Acton
"Acton advised the contributors to the Cambridge Modern History: 'our Waterloo must be one that satisfies French and English, German and Dutch alike.' E.H. Carr had his fun with that, but who looks shabbier now - Carr with his denial of the Katyn massacre and his homage to Stalin, or Acton?'"
Tom Deveson
"If the next conservatism is to reverse this decline and begin to recover the America we knew as recently as the 1950s, the last normal decade, it must do three things. First, it must aspire to change not merely how people vote but how they live their lives. It must lead growing numbers of Americans to secede from the rotten pop culture of materialism, consumerism, hyper-sexualization, and political correctness and return to the old ways of living. The next conservatism includes “retroculture”: a conscious, deliberate recovery of the past.
"This recovery should not be, indeed cannot be, imposed through political power. This is the second action the next conservatism must take: putting power in its place. … The rejection of the counterculture that has become the mainstream culture must proceed bottom-up, person by person and family by family, on a voluntary basis."
"The Next Conservatism" by Paul M. Weyrich and William S. Lind in The American Conservative.
Marshall McLuhan, Culture is Our Business (1970)
"The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks."
Lord Acton
"Acton advised the contributors to the Cambridge Modern History: 'our Waterloo must be one that satisfies French and English, German and Dutch alike.' E.H. Carr had his fun with that, but who looks shabbier now - Carr with his denial of the Katyn massacre and his homage to Stalin, or Acton?'"
Tom Deveson
"If the next conservatism is to reverse this decline and begin to recover the America we knew as recently as the 1950s, the last normal decade, it must do three things. First, it must aspire to change not merely how people vote but how they live their lives. It must lead growing numbers of Americans to secede from the rotten pop culture of materialism, consumerism, hyper-sexualization, and political correctness and return to the old ways of living. The next conservatism includes “retroculture”: a conscious, deliberate recovery of the past.
"This recovery should not be, indeed cannot be, imposed through political power. This is the second action the next conservatism must take: putting power in its place. … The rejection of the counterculture that has become the mainstream culture must proceed bottom-up, person by person and family by family, on a voluntary basis."
"The Next Conservatism" by Paul M. Weyrich and William S. Lind in The American Conservative.
First, it must aspire to change not merely how people vote but how they live their lives.
ReplyDeleteYes, I entirely agree.
"This recovery should not be, indeed cannot be, imposed through political power. This is the second action the next conservatism must take: putting power in its place. … The rejection of the counterculture that has become the mainstream culture must proceed bottom-up, person by person and family by family, on a voluntary basis."
I'm not at all clear as to how that is going to happen.