Rod Dreher, Crunchy Cons
1. We
are conservatives who stand outside the conservative mainstream; therefore, we
can see things that matter more clearly.
2. Modern
conservatism has become too focused on money, power, and the accumulation of
stuff, and insufficiently concerned with the content of our individual and
social character.
3. Big
business deserves as much skepticism as big government.
4. Culture
is more important than politics and economics.
5. A
conservatism that does not practice restraint, humility, and good
stewardship—especially of the natural world—is not fundamentally conservative.
6. Small,
Local, Old, and Particular are almost always better than Big, Global, New, and
Abstract.
7. Beauty
is more important than efficiency.
8. The
relentlessness of media-driven pop culture deadens our senses to authentic
truth, beauty, and wisdom.
9. We
share Russell Kirk’s conviction that “the institution most essential to
conserve is the family.”
10. Politics
and economics won’t save us; if our culture is to be saved at all, it will be
by faithfully living by the Permanent Things, conserving these ancient moral
truths in the choices we make in our everyday lives.
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