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Entry: The Gospel of Hope Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/the_gospel_of_hope#10651 Post contents: Although I have declared that I will not write any more articles for this site - due to my objection to being published on a site which publishes anything by the neo-eugenicist Jared Taylor (and that is a sacrifice for me, but I must stand by it for the sake of integrity) - I believe I'm still within the bounds of honour to comment occasionally, as when, for instance, I see someone misrepresenting the words and intentions of my friend John Lukacs. Mr Watson wrote: "Lukacs says that traditional conservatives have considered stability more important than progress." No. He has never said anything of the kind. He has often said the contrary, very passionately and in a way which - evidently here, using Mr Watson's comment as evidence - continues to be either ignored or misunderstood. John Lukacs (I do not speak for him, but I know him and his ideas quite well and personally) believes that there are almost NO "traditional conservatives" AT ALL in America, LEAST OF ALL those who call themselves men of the so-called "Old Right" (meaning, radical nationalists). Lukacs has often said (both in print and in person), that most Americans who call themselves "traditional conservatives" are split-minded, because most of them DO believe in "progress", perhaps especially in material progress as most so-called "libertarians" do. But leaving the libertarians aside, Lukacs' MAIN objection to both the neocons AND the paleocons (of America; European rightists are a SOMEWHAT different story), is that for all their prattling about "tradition", very few of them give a damn about REAL, TRADITIONAL patriotism which is based on love of the LAND! And, Lukacs often excoriates both the neocons AND the paleocons insofar as their claims to be concerned with "family" and "tradition" (or, God help us, that puerile and insubstantial proposition of RACIAL "kith and kin"), really doesn't square up with their almost total disregard of the rape of the landscape and the poisoning of the Earth. And, personally, one of the main reasons for my disillusionment with this (otherwise very good and valuable) blog, is that I have seen almost NO concern expressed in it for preserving the American (or European, or for that matter, planetary) LANDSCAPE! How, HOW can anyone pretend to be a "traditional patriot" if his FIRST concern is not to protect and defend the LAND? All the chatter which we've heard/suffered on this blog about "race" and "kith and kin", rings very hollow in the absence of any expression of love for the land, and a desire to defend the LAND against the depredations of ALL "races". The rape of the land - not just in America, but all over our planet now - poses far more danger to ALL civilisation than any "racial" conflicts. But aside from that, I agree with Mr Watson's paraphrases of Lukacs. (Sigh.) Anyway, in sum, John Lukacs does NOT say that "traditional conservatives" are too concered with stability. His greatest concern, and mine, is that most Americans who call themselves "traditional conservatives", really don't give a damn about the FOUNDATION of stability, which is love and defense of the ancient blessing of the LAND! Here endeth the lesson. And I hope my occasional internet friends FJ Sarto and Taki, with whom I am more in accord than not, will regard this comment as a welcome one ;-) :-) Sent at: 2008 09 05