tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18762198.post1208208286365877313..comments2023-12-02T06:33:50.847-08:00Comments on Notes from a Common-place Book: Back to BurkeTerry (John)http://www.blogger.com/profile/07523479530843509695noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18762198.post-61464541822730552062011-09-06T13:12:31.348-07:002011-09-06T13:12:31.348-07:00I am a Mule in search of an ideology. Since in ge...I am a Mule in search of an ideology. Since in general I consider the product of incremental accretions of subconscious folkways superior in forming ways and mores for a community to a bunch of smart guys sitting around a table figuring out what is good for the Rest of us boobs, I gravitate towards the High Toryism of a publication like <i>The American Conservative</i>.<br /><br />Then I remember the treatment of African Americans in the pre-Civil-Rights-Movement South and it dawns on me that it is not always the better angels of our nature that hold sway when we hold to tradition and precedent . I need a moral compass pretty badly.Mule Chewing Briarshttp://asinusspinasmasticans.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18762198.post-2371599691777209682011-08-31T12:03:29.801-07:002011-08-31T12:03:29.801-07:00I'm not always happy with what I have run into...I'm not always happy with what I have run into on TAC, but since even the curmudgeons of FPR are not enough for me, I doubt I could expect better.<br /><br />I remember my father once somewhere in the early 90's explaining to me that conservative just wasn't a useful term if it didn't imply what we were trying to conserve.<br /><br />He supposed (and my father never supposed anything, everything was more definitive than that) that traditionalist might be a better term of art.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com