The hollow mina9/5/2023 ![]() ![]() Deconstruction and anti-historicism are idols that today help dictate a false conception of conservatism. Ours is now fast transposing into an age of idolatry that goes beyond the relativistic and nihilistic vices, one in which the conservative idea is ripped from its roots in the Permanent Things and, in effect, alienated from the moral sense and the moral imagination. Shifting attitudes and opinions proclaimed in elite centers and in mainstream discourse further diminish time-tested conservative values. ![]() ![]() We wantonly abandon standards of authority and tradition in search of new Babylons made to the specifications of ideologues in their campaign to supplant the conservative spirit as we have known the truth of its excellences. We live in an age that almost automatically dismisses seminal texts and ideas in favor of an indiscriminating neoterism. Eliot, from Richard Weaver and Russell Kirk to Claes Ryn and George Carey in more recent times is inestimable. The damage done to the meaning of conservatism in the great tradition from Edmund Burke to T.S. Indeed, some conservatives seem to be searching frantically for another word, another designation, that better defines and authenticates their conservative identity and allegiance. That the canons of conservatism must beg to be defended against present-day pretenders who mask their ambitions and antinomies under the rubric of conservatism points to a rampant confusion in the ranks of conservatives. A conservatism at the mercy of hollow men is inconceivable, and yet cruelly possible, which ultimately makes it necessary to protect and to conserve the soil of conservative thought and consciousness. ![]()
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