The Ugliest Form of Antagonism...and It's
for You
American Thinker,
by
Jeffrey Folks
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
5/30/2022 7:25:04 AM
Roger Scruton was a British philosopher who spent his life defending conservative values. Sir Roger, as he was after his knighthood in 2016, saw the antagonist culture as a rejection of inherited values, including gender distinctions, capitalism, patriotism, religious faith, and everyday morality such as honesty and prohibitions against theft, adultery, and other evils.No one understood antagonism better, on a theoretical level, than Scruton, and he wrote with passion and clarity. For anyone wishing to understand the culture of antagonism, Scruton's books, including The Meaning of Conservatism, The Aesthetics of Music, and How to Be a Conservative, are a good place to start.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 5/30/2022 7:54:21 AM (No. 1170101)
In their stealth takeover of America the commies replaced virtues with values. Virtues are objective behaviors and ways of thinking; honesty, integrity, honor, truthfulness, industry and kindness towards others. Values can be anything anyone wants them to be. Without the standard virtues that built Western civilization, that civilization cannot stand. Our way of life has been beaten by the hammer and sickle until its unrecognizable. Our only way out of this mess is a great spiritual awakening of our people. We must promote the old virtues and teach our children well; and get them out of the public schools!
We have a country to rebuild and we can only do it with God.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
bpl40 5/30/2022 8:13:41 AM (No. 1170119)
"Overwhelming victory of Conservatives in November..." is exactly what is scaring the living daylights out of me. The antagonists are becoming cornered animals. More and more irrational, brazen and dangerous. I would not be surprised if talk of postponing the elections under excuse of some faux emergency begins to emerge in summer.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
FJB 5/30/2022 8:31:33 AM (No. 1170133)
Thank you, Timber Queen: Posts like yours are one reason I've returned to L.com day after day, year after year. MAGA
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
chance_232 5/30/2022 9:27:40 AM (No. 1170202)
Whats shocking is the sudden and overwhelming shift to the left and the overwhelming rejection reason and morals. Sure, its been going on for decades, but its been on steroids since Obama. Its not just in the US, its happening all across Christensdom. Even the major churches are getting in on the act.
Anyone remember when Trump was mocked when he correctly predicted that soon "they will be coming for Jefferson and Washington"?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 5/30/2022 9:37:51 AM (No. 1170213)
#1, your last sentence brings it home. Satanic forces are at work to destroy our Republic. To set America right but only with God will be a tall order because belief in the Creator has been replaced with obeyance to a deep state. But we must try. As soon as enough Americans understand the fork in the road that lies ahead.
P.S. I too hope your medical crisis has passed. It's no fun especially given the woke medical system that is supposed to answer to us not the other way around.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
pensom2 5/30/2022 9:39:17 AM (No. 1170216)
I agree wholeheartedly with #1 as to the solution to these problems. However, I don't see it happening any time soon. President Trump did a great job pushing for appropriate conservatism and values; the left--particularly the MSM--gnashed their teeth at him and on him relentlessly. The swamp attacked and undermined him at every turn.
We are witnessing some stage of the last days. I fear things will worsen before they improve.
If I could change one single thing in our society, it would be our primary and secondary (pre-college) school system:
a. Privatize the school system;
b. Return control of education to the States and eliminate federal taxation and control of education. Permit parents to use State education tax monies to enroll their children in any State-accredited private school they choose, religious or otherwise;
c. Gradually or immediately eliminating the capacity of federal bureaucrat swamp rats to control education and the imposition of their preferred theories of race, gender, sexual behavior, politics, civics, and other social beliefs, standards, and practices.
If parents should choose to enroll their child in a Catholic or other religious school, let them do so and subsidize the tuition, allowing the students to pray and learn some of the basics of about God to supplement the teachings they receive at home and at church. If parents choose to enroll their child in a science-intensive school, let them do so. If parents choose to enroll their child in an artistic-, humanities-intensive school, let them do so. All schools will revert to teaching reading, writing, mathematics and science, with parents, not bureaucratic, leftist perverts, determining the curriculum. If parents don't like the curriculum, they would be free to move their children to a school whose curriculum they support.
The education unions would lose their leverage and membership and would eventually cease to exist. Then we could move on to reforming the leftist control over colleges and universities.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
FJB 5/30/2022 9:49:41 AM (No. 1170234)
Calling what those Global Marxicrat criminals have done to destroy America since 2020 "politics" is ridiculous. Even Biden-Harris lawn sign types should realize that — for anyone continuing to buy the so-called Democrat party line is now part of the treasonous Orwellian takeover of America.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
MDConservative 5/30/2022 10:14:26 AM (No. 1170256)
Conservatism weakens as it stands on ever-shifting sand as society "evolves". It stands fast in the face of change, for better or worse, but always at the expense of becoming questionable by the public. Occasionally there are paroxysms, like the election of PDT, but these eventually fall back into expanded liberalism. The ironic thing is liberalism is fueled by liberty - the freedom to express views and associate - fully supported by conservatives. Americans operate under the wrongheaded view that people just want to live free. Not so. And so we import immigrants from societies where the government is the central force in native behavior, from managing economics to society's structures. As more flood our land, whether legally or illegally, border jumpers or refugees, the pressures mount to do the same here. America is to conform rather than demand social assimilation.
The essential problem today is that elected "conservative" leaders are feckless, and the American government from local to Federal operates under UNIPARTY rules, what was once the vaunted two-party system. Why fix elections if the outcome is at worst "neutral"? The result is not competition of ideas, nor consideration of national interest. It is becoming plain that it's driven by profiteering. The result is generally further chipping away the American society and its social compact that began forming in 1776.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
danu 5/30/2022 4:17:16 PM (No. 1170650)
If I may interject #1--commies have no values or virtues--just hypocritical fake-news 'virtue... Signalling.'
There is only 1 true value/virtue/sacrament for the lizard brainz ----murderous child sacrifice.
That is all.
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