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Entry: From Richard to Rowan Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/from_richard_to_rowan#32950 Post contents: Speaking of <I>Suicide Of The West</I>, here's the money quote: <I>But modern liberalism does not offer ordinary men compelling motives for personal suffering, sacrifice, and death. There is no tragic dimension in its picture of the good life. Men become willing to endure, sacrifice, and die for God, family, king, honor, country, from a sense of absolute duty or an exalted vision of the meaning of history. It is such traditional ideals and the institutions slowly built around them that are in present fact the great bulwarks, spiritual as well as social, against the tidal advance of the world Communist enterprise. And it is precisely these ideals and institutions that liberalism has criticized, attacked, and in part overthrown as superstitious, archaic, reactionary, and irrational. In their place liberalism proposes a set of pale and bloodless abstractions--pale and bloodless for the very reason that they have no roots in the past, in deep feeling and in suffering. Except for mercenaries, saints, and neurotics, no one is willing to sacrifice and die for progressive education, Medicare, humanity in the abstract, the United Nations, and a 10 per cent rise in Social Security payments.</I> In truth much the same thing can be said of today's (pseudo) conservatives, who can't tell the difference between a nation and a corporation. Sent at: 2008 12 02