Things Fall Apart
Reaction is not Neoreaction (but still Conservatism). Alain Finkielkraut explains to Spiegel:
SPIEGEL: What do you say to people who call you a reactionary?
Finkielkraut: It has become impossible to see history as constant progress. I reserve the possibility to compare yesterday and today and ask the question: What do we retain, what do we abandon?
SPIEGEL: Is that really any more than nostalgia for a lost world?
Finkielkraut: Like Albert Camus, I am of the opinion that our generation’s task is not to recreate the world, but to prevent its decline. We not only have to conserve nature, but also culture. There you have the reactionary.
[The entire interview says something about the unusual conversations that are beginning to break out.]
Sounds like Chesterton… (I should go to sleep. Fix my link?)
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Posted on December 9th, 2013 at 4:41 am | QuoteOk nothing to see here.
Der Spiegel’s interviewers remind me of Cheka torturers. East Germany should never have collapsed.
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admin Reply:
December 9th, 2013 at 1:40 pm
“Ok nothing to see here.” — You’re making unrealistic demands. Of course Finkielkraut isn’t going to do anything to stop France being destroyed, but he’s noticing (in public) that France is being destroyed.
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VXXC Reply:
December 9th, 2013 at 6:41 pm
Get.Behind.Something.
Get.Behind.Anything.
http://www.generation-identitaire.com/
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Nick B. Steves Reply:
December 9th, 2013 at 11:05 pm
‘Course he would never vote for Le Pen, cuz those people are just icky…
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C. Y. Chen Reply:
December 9th, 2013 at 11:29 pm
Kind of related. http://imgur.com/gallery/MfU4i9m
“… explosive and totally uncertain …”
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Posted on December 9th, 2013 at 8:29 pm | Quote“… the perpetrators pushed back the accepted boundary …”
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Posted on December 9th, 2013 at 8:31 pm | Quote