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Entry: What is Paleoconservatism? Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/what_is_paleoconservatism#27634 Post contents: One problem I have with some paleo-conservatives and many neocons as well is their insistence that Libertarianism seeks to turn society upside down because they favor "reducing government". Well yet again the problem with that line of thinking is that government is the main source of culture and that it is needed in large doses to maintain order. This ignores, of course, societies like medieval Iceland & the Swiss confederacies, and also ignores men like Thomas Jefferson, JRR Tolkien and Lord Acton, men who hated government and political authority and yet were lovers of the great arts and culture that they held in high regard. Sent at: 2008 11 20