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Entry: The Pragmatism of Russell Kirk Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_pragmatism_of_russell_kirk#3667 Post contents: "Traditional conservative societies always had a respect for the ‘ancestral’. Perhaps it’s time to bring this back." Absolutely. And that's why, despite the fact that I've been willing to waste words and time on this discussion of a conservative "movement," I'm not actually all that interested in such a beast. Paleoconservatism, at least as far as I'm concerned, is simply a shorthand way of referring to the worldview and way of life that has characterized most men most of the time since the Golden Age of Greece. In other words, it's what's best about Western civilization. No political movement, especially one focused on centralized governmental institutions, will revive and pass on that legacy. Families and parishes and communities can. That's ultimately why many people who can't get past the idea of a "movement" or who see political action as the focus of their lives find Chronicles or paleoconservatism unsatisfying. So be it. They wouldn't have like the monastic movement of the early Middle Ages, either. But from it flowed the high civilization of the later Middle Ages. Sent at: 2008 09 06