Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler
I won't follow your lead and make this personal, Chris, although we both know that I very well could do so if I were willing to sink to that level.
Here you've conflated, I believe out of pique more than genuine confusion, having, as you put it "...no interest in the source of his thinking...", etc., with a wholly rational resistance to the idea that every view on every issue must be categorized as supporting or refuting a political ideology. As an academic exercise there's nothing wrong with it; as a way of judging or labeling individuals in the present day and in the real world, it can be counterproductive and a distraction.
I understood the point of the passage quoted in the OP, and I believe the point that I made in my first response to it - that, in its simplest terms, for a society to base its policies on some potentially flawed perception of the past (and "how great it was") may not be the wisest course - was a valid one.
“Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.” - Robert E. Howard
"Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas and not eat a chicken fried steak." - Larry McMurtry
There was nothing personal implied other than you're taking it so. If you don't have interest in the history of ideas, so be it, not everyone does.
Moreover, the purpose of aligning or categorizing political ideas with their origins is also not to attack the person but the very ideas themselves. Idea A is much like earlier idea B and look where idea B led to is the sort of thing I'm interested in.
Nice opinion but wholly without substance as it pertains to the OP. I mean, surely, for one or a society to base policies on false perceptions is unwise, but you've done nothing to show reactionary Romantics wrong about the Enlightenment.I understood the point of the passage quoted in the OP, and I believe the point that I made in my first response to it - that, in its simplest terms, for a society to base its policies on some potentially flawed perception of the past (and "how great it was") may not be the wisest course - was a valid one.
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler
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Standing Wolf (08-11-2022)
Call your state legislators and insist they approve the Article V convention of States to propose amendments.
I pledge allegiance to the Constitution as written and understood by this nation's founders, and to the Republic it created, an indivisible union of sovereign States, with liberty and justice for all.
Standing Wolf (08-11-2022)
Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.
~Alain de Benoist
“Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.” - Robert E. Howard
"Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas and not eat a chicken fried steak." - Larry McMurtry
Dr. Who (08-11-2022)
Call your state legislators and insist they approve the Article V convention of States to propose amendments.
I pledge allegiance to the Constitution as written and understood by this nation's founders, and to the Republic it created, an indivisible union of sovereign States, with liberty and justice for all.
“Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.” - Robert E. Howard
"Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas and not eat a chicken fried steak." - Larry McMurtry
Dr. Who (08-11-2022)
Call your state legislators and insist they approve the Article V convention of States to propose amendments.
I pledge allegiance to the Constitution as written and understood by this nation's founders, and to the Republic it created, an indivisible union of sovereign States, with liberty and justice for all.