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Entry: After Paleoconservatism (II) Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/after_paleoconservatism_ii#24721 Post contents: <i>How will local communities return to the “good life” when their vision of the good life is created in Manhattan and Hollywood?</i> They won't. We agree completely on that point. Where we apparently disagree is in the solution. Your suggestion works only if the right people can somehow capture the institutions in Manhattan and Hollywood that currently hold cultural hegemony; mine works if people simply shut off FOX TV and quit listening to talk radio. I know quite well what Sam Francis wrote; I also know that, by the late 90's, he had begun to have his doubts that the right elements would ever be able to capture those central institutions of culture. You don't have to rely on my testimony about our conversations, however--simply compare his columns in <i>Chronicles</i> from 2000 on with those that he wrote before. The declining emphasis on a Gramscian solution will be obvious. Sent at: 2008 07 24