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Entry: What is Paleoconservatism? Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/what_is_paleoconservatism#27661 Post contents: Neo-conservatives, conservatives, liberals, paleo-conservatives, etc etc etc in this 10 minute event horizon age are the kinds of navel-gazing organizational agitprop that produced one of the more idiotic things to spring from El Deeciderosa's lips: "Compassionate Conservative". Marx asserted that Religion is the opiate of the masses, the Soviets and Communist Chinese proved that their systems were the Vodka of the masses and the Distilled-democracy Corporate Globalism of this era of Democracy at gunpoint have proven that our current system is the Methamphetamines of the masses. Saint Augustine has plunged a shiv into the back of Saint Patrick and tells him he loves it. The crowded world demands obedience and if it doesn't get it, it shoots first and fails to ask any questions later. Speed and impatience rule the day and discourse is as dead as latin. The nation state has failed us and turned us over to the tutelage of the Corporatists who are nothing so much as Medieval Feudalists and in this atmosphere, it matters not a hit whether one calls himself a neo-radical-Jainist Vegan or a Conservative Post-Republican big Government Champion........there is a market for anything as long as the people trade discernment for comfort and the sweetly prosaic smells of the herd. Talking about Taft or Burke these days may be interesting and somewhat helpful but it is about as illuminating of the current crisis as is talking about Nathan Bedford Forrest. After all, with the current "leadership" it's more about extolling the virtues of what one isn't than it is discerning what might be of use across the broad spectrum....while remaining grounded in a pragmatic understanding of what worked in the past. The speed of everything in this cheapened life of hyper mobility is ensuring that we'll continue our careening in reverse. Sent at: 2008 11 20