Regression.

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In Norton, in college, I was the right wing apologist. It was easy in college because the Liberals were idiots. Washed up old Textual Signifiers sucking tenure and Chomskyianism from wrinkly nipples. 19 year old performance artists who thought fair trade was something that happened to coffee, but cheap gas was a civil right. Who wouldn't want to talk long about why that was stupid. Who wore Correct Opinions as a fashion statement.

And the questions Krauthhammer and Will asked during the Iraq war debate were really never answered. If not invasion, and if not sanctions ... then what? If not Saddam and not Annan and not us ... then what? The only answers I heard were warmed-over Vietnam ditties and Audio Art.

The Brits helped too.  My favorite reactionaries are all anglos. There's Tony Daniels and John Derbyshire and Andrew Sullivan. There's Chris Hitchens, serving his separate (Chomskian!) interests by being a hawk on Islam. When he was kicked out of the Clubhouse for suggesting that daughter murder was not a Revolutionary Impulse*, and maybe Diversity ended where theocracy got started, it made the Left look even more useless.

The lesson was that Conservatives were ice-cold-eyers. Realistic types who could stand to follow chains of evidence where they led, confront the harder parts of human nature head on. That they were unpleasant, unloved, but honest.

... that seems like a LONG time ago.

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Bizzo: That's it. I'm done.

Dutch: qua?

Bizzo: National Review is now publishing people from the Discovery Institute in an offical defense of Expelled. Franco, I could fucking tolerate. He just killed people and was too into the pope.

Dutch: god the discovery institute

Bizzo: Saying you're defending the West, and then writing that science is the devil is over the line

Dutch: what a fucking load of bollox

Bizzo: Welcome to today's Conservative thought. Rights and Liberties? Citizenship? Limited Government? fuck 'em. 1) Trust no one who can read. 2) Never let a woman talk to a doctor

That's it.

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I tried to keep up with those journals, and couldn't. They've left the fucking planet. All they do is call people faggots, call people ugly, and drum each other out of the corp. You can probably read an entire paper issue of these things without encountering one idea. It's all about who's not holy this week. A giant, bitchy enemies list.

That's how you know things are over, isn't it? When The Nation had to kick out Hitch, that's when they became a byword for fossilized 60's bullshit.

So what do you call a movement that's kicked out everybody?

Superstitious, and almost nothing else.

Southern, and almost nothing else.

Angry, and almost nothing else.

The bad old days are back in US Conservatism. And even the anglos are going with the tribe. Back to where learning is a threat to manhood. City living is the way of the devil. And complex problems have simple, negro-related causes. Try reading Burke or Adam Smith or Bill Buckley to these people now. They'd probably put a hex on you for using all those big words.

And it's the same people, remember.

How does this stuff happen inside the human brain? How do we fossilize?

I wish I knew.

*I think that it is actually, but then I hate 20th century ideas of Revolution. Che Guevera was General Franco with a hat. I wonder how much rape you can personally commit before the Movement decides you're not The Solution.