tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25624602.post115410157636196248..comments2024-03-15T00:12:57.489-07:00Comments on Covenant Zone: Lessons from the meetingtruepeershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16401984575637492845noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25624602.post-1154154112354667672006-07-28T23:21:00.000-07:002006-07-28T23:21:00.000-07:00Yet the left won't even debate, because they don't...<I>Yet the left won't even debate, because they don't want to change their minds. For whatever reason, they fear being wrong more than they fear being dead.<BR/>Maybe because, with such a limited view, both mean the same thing.</I><BR/><BR/>-I think this is a keen insight, Charles. At root, their attitudes and sociability is pagan and accordingly full of sacrificial violence.<BR/><BR/>Putting a mirror in front of people is always a powerful strategy. We can also think about making traditional values like honour, courage, perseverance noteworthy again (e.g. by fighting to speak the truth about Israel and America) and represent them in the name of the mainstream Canadian culture that has so few public defenders, or even representatives, today. In part, the left hates us because we have entered a freer, highly decentralized age with little of singular importance winning attentions at the centre of our culture or society. Lacking the old-style high culture which the anachronistic left would still like to make it their business to represent and criticize, they must punish us for abandoning the stage and audience they desire. To their way of thinking, we bourgeois westerners are now only notable as victimizers of the victims they must now put at the centre of attention. They will gall us with the finger that declares us racists, sexists, homophobes, whatever, until some of us have the gumption to fight for the centre again (and thus acknowledge their desire to fight for the centre). So I am glad to hear nomdeblog saying he sees many deciding no longer to be pc.<BR/><BR/>But while the old, centralized, national high culture has declined for understandable reasons, this is not to say that we can ever do without someone taking responsibility to defend the centre of national life . A viable national politics will always require it, if we are to escape the fate of being nothing but subjects of some imperial bureaucracy. So, I think we are now entering a time when anyone who is capable (this is now the only prerequisite) of representing the Canadian centre through noble acts can do so and get some attention. So, let's show them the mirror with one hand, and what a good Canadian can be with the other.truepeershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16401984575637492845noreply@blogger.com