shameless rip from another blog
one of the difficulties with engaging in politics is that you get painted with a wide brush. anyway, i found something called "Crunchy Con Manifesto" at a blog that jo pointed me to. it follows below. i am not sure about #s 1 (it may not be true) and 4 (culture cannot exist without politics and economics using their terms in a wider, proper sense).
A Crunchy Con Manifesto
1. We are conservatives who stand outside the conservative mainstream; therefore, we can see things that matter more clearly.
2. Modern conservatism has become too focused on money, power, and the accumulation of stuff, and insufficiently concerned with the content of our individual and social character.
3. Big business deserves as much skepticism as big government.
4. Culture is more important than politics and economics.
5. A conservatism that does not practice restraint, humility, and good stewardship - especially of the natural world - is not fundamentally conservative.
6. Small, Local, Old, and Particular are almost always better than Big, Global, New, and Abstract.
7. Beauty is more important than efficiency.
8. The relentlessness of media-driven pop culture deadens our senses to authentic truth, beauty, and wisdom.
9. We share Russell Kirk's conviction that 'the institution most essential to conserve is the family.'
A Crunchy Con Manifesto
1. We are conservatives who stand outside the conservative mainstream; therefore, we can see things that matter more clearly.
2. Modern conservatism has become too focused on money, power, and the accumulation of stuff, and insufficiently concerned with the content of our individual and social character.
3. Big business deserves as much skepticism as big government.
4. Culture is more important than politics and economics.
5. A conservatism that does not practice restraint, humility, and good stewardship - especially of the natural world - is not fundamentally conservative.
6. Small, Local, Old, and Particular are almost always better than Big, Global, New, and Abstract.
7. Beauty is more important than efficiency.
8. The relentlessness of media-driven pop culture deadens our senses to authentic truth, beauty, and wisdom.
9. We share Russell Kirk's conviction that 'the institution most essential to conserve is the family.'
posted by Aaron Perry at
8:24 PM
7 Comments:
Crunchy Cons sound like 19th century English Anarchists. I bet they read Tolkien, too.
From the border lands of Mordor,
Some Guy
this one went over my head...
(1) Love of family
(2) Love of beauty
(3) Suspicion of machinery (whether business or government)
(4) Love of nature
(5) Romantic view of country life
(6) Emphasis on simplicity
All conservative values. All rooted in 19th century England and reaction against industrialization.
NB--Mordor and Orthanc look alot like Liverpool and Manchester and Birmingham c. 1925. Lots of smoke, machines, fire, etc.
Also looks like Hamilton today.
thanks for making it explicit.
My issue is not industry so much as the category mistakes made with it. Possessions are good things. Artefacts are meant to be possessed.
We should therefore create artefacts. The problem is the exploitation of artefacts and their use as conveyers of status (a girl telling me I should wear American Eagle jeans), representation of salvation, and promise of freedom (vehicles going into untraversed terrain). Now artefacts become economic products rather than tools. .... Of course, industry does provide work and employment. But, again, here is the reason for suspicion. If artefacts are economic products, then pumping out as many suitably made products is more important than workers. machines begin to take jobs...
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