I admit to an inability to recognize the merits of the populist Right, the ones who see creativity and book-learning as oppression. I can recognize the merits of the old conservatism, the sort that recognized that people needed to find something worthy of protecting so that the common man would have more to lose than his chains in the event of a revolution in the name of the proletariat.
Those conservatives did not disparage education and insisted upon sound process.
Those conservatives did not disparage education and insisted upon sound process.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.