The Name of Love
Far Right Nutjob
And wow, you expect me to take your critiques seriously, yet you post things like this? When did I say I wanted tech barons of Silicon Valley to become the new aristocrats?I mean, when you blame its passing for all the issues the modern world faces, and suggest that the tech barons of Silicon Valley will make an adequate replacement (very odd given that they aren't exactly well known for being traditionalist or devoutly Catholic, both things which I believe are important to you) it's hard not to think so.
Perhaps you are correct. This post is entirely negative: pointing out flaws rather than offering positive alternatives. I posited ideas out there, but I didn't get into specifics, mainly because I don't have the specifics. I'm not offering some kind of political formulation that can be plugged into tomorrow's policy debate. This is just a call to action to let people know that right-wingers need to rethink individualism if they want to oppose state totalitarianism and the moral disintegration of society (which I consider to go hand-in-hand).When the fact is that you aren't being proactive in offering your solution to the problem, only pointing out the flaws in the present system of thought or governance before stating it needs to go and when somebody point's out the vast problems that that would cause you say. "Yes, but the way you have been doing it is wrong!" and then when we demand a straight forward answer of what you want exactly or how you plan to achieve it, you sometimes will either ignore the question or flat out admit that you don't know the answer.
I mean, if you want the moderate solution, Robert Nisbet's idea of promoting localism, thick religious communities, and high trust societies would be something any moderate conservative could endorse, and I'd have a hard time finding a flaw in that. I'd be a bit more radical in my solution because I regard social disintegration and state centralization to be a fundamental part of modernity, but a conservative who embraced Robert Nisbet's solutions would basically be able to avoid most of my arguments. I don't think it's that hard, really.