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Entry: After Paleoconservatism (II) Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/after_paleoconservatism_ii#24895 Post contents: Taking over FOX News or going the Rush Limbaugh route amount to the same thing. Trust me; such paleos as Paul Gottfried have wished to do so all along. It's not going to happen. More importantly, the focus is itself in error. Organic culture, like organic community, is heavily shaped and guided by elites, but we make a mistake in assuming that the best way to create a sympathetic elite is to focus on the elite that now exists or on the institutions that that elite controls. This is, in fact, something that Sam Francis wrestled with, and I'm not sure that he would say that he ever came up with a satisfactory answer. From my standpoint, the answer is clear: We're at a point in history where a new elite must be built from the ground up. Only people who grow up valuing the decentralized, the local, the particular will be able to defend it down the line. Co-opting those whose lives have been built on centralization, or taking over institutions that are are built on centralization, would, if successful, simply give us people and institutions that assume that centralization is the right route. Sent at: 2008 07 24