One definition of conservatism in our time might be this: those people who just refuse to have the conversation (or conversations) that the liberal left wants us to have.
I can't imagine how often I've stopped reading a book or article because I've thought: "I'm not interested in having or even hearing this conversation". It just happened now, actually.
I'm sure there's many people on all sides that don't have a conversation. I found a piece in Belloc the other week concerning people that try to blindly replicate what had passed as opposed to conserving what we should, it was in the context of Charles II and the return of the monarch and seemed to , significantly,involve the younger generation who didn't have the absolute experience of earlier times. Can't find the piece though.
ReplyDeleteWell, that's true that people on all sides refuse to have a conversation. I guess it's just that the liberal left is currently top dog and is particularly insistent. As for Belloc, I'm really going to have to read him (properly), because every time I hear something he wrote summarised it's not what I expect.
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