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Entry: Postmodern, Not Hypermodern: Russell Kirk Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/postmodern_not_hypermodern_russell_kirk#14060 Post contents: Splendid article! Please write again, Mr Wegierski! Kindly tolerate a few quibbles and addenda: <i>the unquestionable benefits of science and technology </i> Let’s submit the “unquestioned” part to a jury of 12, 6 from Hiroshima, and 6 from Nagasaki, with our house ecologist, John Ball, as a alternate. But I’m not faulting Mr. Wegierski. <i>While unquestionably cherishing and valorizing white, Western, Christian civilization, he never got caught up in excessively racialized and biologically-reductionist modes of argument. </i> Very true about Kirk, however much our Stormfronters lie about him. And I thank the author for saying so. Still, I regret the use of “white, Western, Christian”. Are Finns, Norwegians, Highland Scots, Basques, and Sicilians of the same “race”? If they are, then the whole concept of “race” is meaningless – as I have argued often enough. <i>When a conservative calls the current-day regime “soul-killing,” he’s answered with a shrug.</i> Werner Dannhauser, paraphrasing Nietzsche, put it even more bluntly: “[The Last Man] has due regard for health of the body, but would scarcely understand even the notion of health of the soul.” in <i>Confronting the Constitution</i>, p. 407. <i>What the Fifties in America probably lacked most was a sense of the heroic, of self-sacrificing struggle on behalf of an evocative ideal.</i> Probably a fault of the bourgeoisie in general. Still, the age of the bourgeois was better than what followed. What a social order looks up to and admires says everything about it. Sent at: 2008 07 05