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The most important input into conservative thinking is the desire to sustain the networks of familiarity and trust on which a community depends for its longevity. Conservatism is what its name says it is: the attempt to conserve the
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Community is a key term. It seems S. is using community in a more local and regional way. Given the expanding sense of community with social media and migration, how far can a conservative's notion of community extend?
“realities instead.”
― Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition
― Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition
“The most important input into conservative thinking is the desire to sustain the networks of familiarity and trust on which a community depends for its longevity. Conservatism is what its name says it is: the attempt to conserve the community that we have”
― Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition
― Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition
“Sooner or later the world must burn, and all things in it—all the books, the cloister together with the brothel, Fra Angelico together with the Lucky Strike ads which I haven’t seen for seven years because I don’t remember seeing one in Louisville. Sooner or later it will all be consumed by fire and nobody will be left—for by that time the last man in the universe will have discovered the bomb capable of destroying the universe and will have been unable to resist the temptation to throw the thing and get it over with. And here I sit writing a diary. But love laughs at the end of the world because love is the door to eternity and he who loves God is playing on the doorstep of eternity, and before anything can happen love will have drawn him over the sill and closed the door and he won’t bother about the world burning because he will know nothing but love.”
― The Sign of Jonas
― The Sign of Jonas
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