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Entry: Is There Conservatism Beyond Christianity? (or how to book a mental vacation in Athens or Valhalla) Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/is_there_conservatism_beyond_christianity_or_how_to_book_a_mental_vacation#23184 Post contents: Benoist's ideas are far more interesting than this article characterizes them. He, unlike most paleocons, is willing to looking critically at the effects of a market-based society from a conservative point of view. Palecons tend to try to reconcile their demand for a free market with their desires for a stable, conservative society - without seeing how these two demands contradict and undermine one another. Benoist is smarter than that and he is also able to see how the values in bourgeois democracies invariably tend to lead to the kind of socialized state that paleocons object to. In this respect, the nostalgia that many in the paleocon community feel for the bourgeois life of the 19th century (and we see this undisguised yearning frequently in Paul Gottfried's work), reveals itself to be about as illogical as people who love kittens, but don't desire cats. Benoist, unlike nearly all American conservatives, sees the silliness of this nostalgia. Sent at: 2008 09 07