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Entry: After Paleoconservatism (II) Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/after_paleoconservatism_ii#24897 Post contents: <i>How are you going to persuade people to do this, even assuming you can somehow get your message to them? </i> As a mass movement? Not going to happen. Yet I see it happening every day among my friends and family and fellow parishioners and readers of <i>Chronicles</i>. And that's the point: If we consider renewal and restoration a success only if it happens <i>right now</i>, then we have to focus on centralized institutions and elites--and, ironically, in our haste to change things, we never will. If we focus on the long term, however--by which I don't mean two election cycles instead of one, but a few lifetimes instead of one--we have a chance. But that requires faith (that the work that we're doing now is worth doing, even if we never directly see its effect), and hope (that, in the long term, the work will have effects), and love (for those for whom we're attempting to prepare a better world by passing on a heritage that is under attack). Sent at: 2008 07 24