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Entry: After Paleoconservatism (II) Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/after_paleoconservatism_ii#24715 Post contents: <i>True restoration will never be imposed, Jacobin-style, from above; it will arise from families and parishes and neighborhoods and regions...</i> That's not obvious to me. What all this localist rhetoric often overlooks is that most of the culture consumed in a given locality has been produced on a nationwide, if not global, scale. How will local communities return to the "good life" when their vision of the good life is created in Manhattan and Hollywood? My impression is that paleo-conservative thought used to owe quite a bit to Gramsci. Look at some of Sam Francis's old columns in _Chronicles_. I think the only hope for a "restoration" is through culture, not government. That means creating and nurturing what Gramsci called "organic intellectuals". You might even agree with me up to here. But the important thing is that these organic intellectuals are not necessarily local, and given the nature of today's national media--syndicated talk radio, for instance--they probably won't be. Sent at: 2008 07 06