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Entry: After Paleoconservatism (II) Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/after_paleoconservatism_ii#24686 Post contents: Your warning against premodern romanticism is well-taken. I fear, however, that paleos will continue to embody an attitude that Willmoore Kendall once accused Russell Kirk of prescribing: "It is a lost cause but oh what a noble cause it is!" As Kendall understood, this attitude has defeatism written all over it. Pining for lost golden ages is a waste of time. As questionable as the neoconservatives are, they've been successful in part because they look forward, not backward. They promise a future (of democracy-building) not a lost past of castles and chivalric traditions. Nostalgia can be very seductive, but quixotic at the end of the day. Sent at: 2008 07 24