Surfeited with Dainties - Michael Brendan Dougherty

Monday Notes

More Granola My review of Crunchy Cons appeared in Brainwash today. It got a brief mention on the CrunchyCon blog at NRO.

Mark Krikorian proposes that white nationalism could become more popular if there is no sensible solution to immigration.

Peter Suderman's blog got a neat new look.

Reader Comments (5)

"But to convince libertarians and more mainstream conservatives of the value of crunchiness, crunchy-cons might consider adopting the methods of neo-conservatism (think Commentary Magazine in the 1970s) and focusing a lot of energy into discovering, through social science, the benefits of traditionalism for the family and society."

There is at this time a corps of sociologists (David Blankenhorn, David Popenoe, Bradford Wilcox, Linda Waite, &c.) who have been elaborating upon the intelligence encoded in the practice monogamy, among other things, and the resultant benefits therefrom. Some of their work has been popularized by Maggie Gallagher. I am not aware that they are identified with any particular ideological faction, however.

2/27/2006 06:21 PM |

Art Deco

you don't 'get rid' of multiculturalism; it's an extant situation. it is already here. shall the indian neighbours depart? shall sushi time learn to cook 'hot dish?' i thought stoics adapted to the world, and did not expect the inverse? this talk is another faux-academic reason for exurban conservatives to be personally unkind and/or belligerent in certain social situations and not more.

2/27/2006 06:50 PM |

kool maudit

"you don't 'get rid' of multiculturalism; it's an extant situation. it is already here."

1.The weak and fragmentary enforcement of immigration laws and the official preference schemes in the distribution of resident visas act to render the flow of immigrants to be dominated by one nationality (Mexico);

2. Government at all levels is complicit in artificially sustaining the use of foreign languages in common speech through bilingual education;

3. Governments at all levels offer a commentary on the responsibilities adhering to immigrants as regards language acquisition through the provision of bilingual ballots;

4. Institutions of higher education provide the following forms of patronage: discounts and admissions preferences to increase the number of students from certified victim groups (among the recent immigrants), subsidies to ethno-racial associations, appearance fees for members of the race relations industry, and current and capital expenditures for instruction in dodgy neo-disciplines (e.g. "chicano/a studies") and employment for professors therein;

5. Faculty at same institutions promote interpretations of American history that understand this country and that history as something essentially shameful, or, alternatively, as reduceable to a story of race relations;

6. The foregoing phenomena are largely artifacts of institutional and public policy and can be dispensed with given collective will. It would be rash to assume they are contrived for reasons that would be defensible in the public sphere, and that the artificers are not given to self-congratulation.

"shall the indian neighbours depart?"

East Indians constitute less than 1% of the national population.

"shall sushi time learn to cook 'hot dish?'"

????

"i thought stoics adapted to the world, and did not expect the inverse?"

Were that principle consistently applied we could legitimately engage in petitions to the government, nor indeed persue any public policies at all. (While we are at it, is it your intention to suggest to Egyptian and Mexican immigrants that they stoically adapt to being deported and living in their countries of origin? Whose calling is it to be stoic, and why?)

"this talk is another faux-academic reason for exurban conservatives to be personally unkind and/or belligerent in certain social situations and not more."

True. I have no other objects.

2/27/2006 08:47 PM |

Art Deco

"i thought stoics adapted to the world, and did not expect the inverse?"

Reveling in the massive destruction is not stoicism; it is masochism. And refusing to capitalize one's sentences is wicked visual sadism.

3/2/2006 10:53 PM |

Nicholas G. Moses

A careful reading of your review suggests that your problem with poor Dreher is that he balks at forcing people into "agrarian lifestyles." Dreher is a fool (or perhaps just better at dissembling than you are) - you are absolutely beneath contempt, as are the rest of the wretched faux-medieval crew so well represented here.

And does that shitfest otherwise known as "The New Pantagruel" actually pay money for obscurantist drivel? It is to laugh. Well, I wish you all much joy in drawing up plans for your new, improved, throroughly consecrated racks and thumbscrews - oh, I'm sorry, in "argue(ing) not only for the revival of long ignored conservative ideas, but their rightness and even necessity for a morally sane society." Since one of your miserable posse claimed that rights do not exist without contract (supporting, in this way, the thankfully late H.Himmler's claim that everything he'd done was beyond criticism because it had all been legal) I'd suggest that none of you have the slightest understanding of the meaning of the words "moral" and "sane".

3/7/2006 04:42 AM |

John Sabotta

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