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Dear Conservatives
Friday, August 24, 2012 12:13
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“Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God’s handwriting – a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dear Conservatives,
I hope you can consider me a concerned friend.
I like the idea of conserving. In fact, that is the very reason I type this little blog. I worry about losing all the lovely things in human civilisation to a great new fascism. And I worry that you are unwittingly being drawn into supporting and building this new fascism, along with your “liberal” opponents. What am I on about?
I was a true believer. I really believed appearances were reality when it came to politics and my job was to choose “liberal” or “conservative.” My family had a history in the Democratic party but as a person concerned about human life and marriage and tradition I thought that meant maybe I should be a Republican. Boy, was I ever naive!
By chance because I was in a library I had and no real hobbies and liked to stay late, I had the opportunity to do some research into the cold war. Oh my goodness, my life would never be the same. I learned that the entire Reagan cold war end narrative was a hoax. Essentially, the staged end of communism had been predicted decades before, in eery specificity such as Yeltsin as a ´liberal´ replacement president and revolution starting in the Baltic states….and so much more. I learned that this was all part of a planned dialectical process where two opposing sides are created simply to bring about a predetermined fusion ending– and all us vs. them party politics are much the same. In the case of the cold war, the entire standoff was coordinated on both ends with a common goal of ushering in a global police state. Think about it. If you were given the task of buiding a global polic state starting in 1900 and control of Russian and American governments as your tools, creating a fake ´arms race´ between the two would be one path to this new dystopia. Convince both that for survival they had to become military states, and that then for peace they would have to begin to merge into one common military state. Ingenius. Come on, even my dumbest friend has pointed out that “the U.N. is just where they meet up to start the wars.”
But what does the have to do with American conservatives? Lots. Your conservative forebearers would hardly recognise you. Pre-UN conservativism was about isolationism and peace and freedom. You were snookered into expansionism and now trashing the bill of rights in order to fight imaginary enemies. That is the easy obvious part. Lots of critics could tell you that. The other part is the the real work of building a global fascist state is on you. YOU are the product. For a few generations all television and public education have been about changing you. They make you worry about trivialities like who is on the supreme court, while they mold your mind, family, religion, identity, everything. Now the way one shows they are conservative is by supporting “capitalism.” Well, I am all in favour of free-enterprise, but they ask you to support the unrestrained value of the market as the arbiter of all good, counting on the fact that you don´t know that it was America´s Wall Street that funded Soviet Bolshevism. Their values are not yours! So you are “conservative” but you don´t care about the sexual revolution, the promotion of obscenity, trash tv, war tactics unheard of in the nineteenth century, all you care about is lower taxes, money, career success, and businesses. They have moved and moved and moved public taste and consensus so far down the gutter, but by mastering the dose and never presenting it as ´debateable.´
So what is the opposite? What is conservative? It is hard for me to help you. I am not a man, not very political, and not very learned. I guess I start from the beginning, what is the good that we want to conserve? I can only think of beauty, as my ultimate value. The beauty of the sacrament of marriage, the beauty of motherhood, of humility, and manners, and sensitivity, and real art. So I find a choice. When I read conservative forums I see aggression, crassness, war mongering, ignorance, crudeness, and naked celebration of money. A good example of what I mean would be genius reality television star Sarah Palin´s statement that some urchin called “Kid Rock” had good “common sense solutions for today´s problems.” Ugh. But I occasionally see pockets of clarity and tradition. In arguing on a conservative forum about how all the rewards must go the the “successful” one man pointed out that “a successful Christian is one who follows the teachings of Jesus Christ.” Exactly.
I don´t think that anyone big and bad is worried about you voting Republican. But they don´t want you to reclaim your heart or mind from them. It´s men and women of dignity and purpose and conscious attachment to beauty and goodness that stand in opposition to their program. Their program is built on a platform of rejection of chastity, marriage, childbearing, fidelity, decency, chivalry, peace, and beautiful art. How can we lose if we meet them head on these grounds with no apology for beauty?
I was a true believer. I really believed appearances were reality when it came to politics and my job was to choose “liberal” or “conservative.” My family had a history in the Democratic party but as a person concerned about human life and marriage and tradition I thought that meant maybe I should be a Republican. Boy, was I ever naive!
By chance because I was in a library I had and no real hobbies and liked to stay late, I had the opportunity to do some research into the cold war. Oh my goodness, my life would never be the same. I learned that the entire Reagan cold war end narrative was a hoax. Essentially, the staged end of communism had been predicted decades before, in eery specificity such as Yeltsin as a ´liberal´ replacement president and revolution starting in the Baltic states….and so much more. I learned that this was all part of a planned dialectical process where two opposing sides are created simply to bring about a predetermined fusion ending– and all us vs. them party politics are much the same. In the case of the cold war, the entire standoff was coordinated on both ends with a common goal of ushering in a global police state. Think about it. If you were given the task of buiding a global polic state starting in 1900 and control of Russian and American governments as your tools, creating a fake ´arms race´ between the two would be one path to this new dystopia. Convince both that for survival they had to become military states, and that then for peace they would have to begin to merge into one common military state. Ingenius. Come on, even my dumbest friend has pointed out that “the U.N. is just where they meet up to start the wars.”
But what does the have to do with American conservatives? Lots. Your conservative forebearers would hardly recognise you. Pre-UN conservativism was about isolationism and peace and freedom. You were snookered into expansionism and now trashing the bill of rights in order to fight imaginary enemies. That is the easy obvious part. Lots of critics could tell you that. The other part is the the real work of building a global fascist state is on you. YOU are the product. For a few generations all television and public education have been about changing you. They make you worry about trivialities like who is on the supreme court, while they mold your mind, family, religion, identity, everything. Now the way one shows they are conservative is by supporting “capitalism.” Well, I am all in favour of free-enterprise, but they ask you to support the unrestrained value of the market as the arbiter of all good, counting on the fact that you don´t know that it was America´s Wall Street that funded Soviet Bolshevism. Their values are not yours! So you are “conservative” but you don´t care about the sexual revolution, the promotion of obscenity, trash tv, war tactics unheard of in the nineteenth century, all you care about is lower taxes, money, career success, and businesses. They have moved and moved and moved public taste and consensus so far down the gutter, but by mastering the dose and never presenting it as ´debateable.´
So what is the opposite? What is conservative? It is hard for me to help you. I am not a man, not very political, and not very learned. I guess I start from the beginning, what is the good that we want to conserve? I can only think of beauty, as my ultimate value. The beauty of the sacrament of marriage, the beauty of motherhood, of humility, and manners, and sensitivity, and real art. So I find a choice. When I read conservative forums I see aggression, crassness, war mongering, ignorance, crudeness, and naked celebration of money. A good example of what I mean would be genius reality television star Sarah Palin´s statement that some urchin called “Kid Rock” had good “common sense solutions for today´s problems.” Ugh. But I occasionally see pockets of clarity and tradition. In arguing on a conservative forum about how all the rewards must go the the “successful” one man pointed out that “a successful Christian is one who follows the teachings of Jesus Christ.” Exactly.
I don´t think that anyone big and bad is worried about you voting Republican. But they don´t want you to reclaim your heart or mind from them. It´s men and women of dignity and purpose and conscious attachment to beauty and goodness that stand in opposition to their program. Their program is built on a platform of rejection of chastity, marriage, childbearing, fidelity, decency, chivalry, peace, and beautiful art. How can we lose if we meet them head on these grounds with no apology for beauty?
2012-08-24 11:50:53
Source: http://lavenderluck.blogspot.com/2012/08/dear-conservatives.html
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