- “Most allegedly postmodern thought emphasizes the arbitrary character of all human authority, the freedom of each human being from all standards but his own will or creativity, and the death not only of God but of nature. These allegedly postmodern characteristics are really hypermodern; they aim to ‘deconstruct’ as incoherent and so incredible any residual modern faith in reason or nature. They shout that everything modern — in fact, everything human — is nothing but a construction.” (Peter Lawler, Conservative Postmodernism, Postmodern Conservatism.)
- “Traditionalism is unreflective and an immediate experience of a way of life. It has no need for intellectual formulation. It just is. Conseratism is…a reflection of the fact that the meaning of tradition is no longer self-evident. Conservatism is the political recreation of the meaning of tradition and in doing so puts tradition to work in the struggle of political ideas. …’if tradition is integral to conservative politics, it is because it represents, not history as such, but history made present and perceivable.’ It is an interpretation, a reconstruction, a ‘practical’ past…” (Aughey, Jones, and Riches, The Conservative Political Tradition in Britain and the United States.)
- “…the deliberate following of prescription which Burke advocated was something different, because it was the result of choice, from the uncalculated loyalty of the past. Those who have eaten from the fruit of knowledge cannot forget.” (Graham Wallas, quoted in The Conservative Mind.)
- “All the super-added ideas, furnished from the wardrobe of a moral imagination, which the heart owns and the understanding ratifies as necessary to cover the defects of our own, shivering nature, and to raise it to dignity in our own estimation, are to be exploded…” (Burke, Reflections.)
Modernism is the search for meaning; postmodernism is the denial of meaning; post-postmodernism is the creation of meaning.
Conclusion: Conservatism is post-postmodern.
Conclusion 2: Conservatism is post-postmodernism.
Oh dear, don’t tell me I’m a conservative.
http://broockman.blogspot.com/2008/02/in-defense-of-my-old-fashioned.html
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