Granola Conservatism
Amy Welborn of open book posts a link to this article by the publisher announcing a new book: Crunchy Cons by Rod Dreher.
From the article:
I was granola before I realized I was conservative. In 1989, my first full-time job was at The Lexington Real Foods Community Co-op. While I shared a lot of the beliefs of my Leftist co-workers and customers, I never really understood how abortion and sexual deviancy fit in with the holistic/natural/organic worldview, just as I cannot understand now how suburban sprawl and pre-emtive wars fit in with the Christian/conservative worldview. I still remember the little old lady from The John Birch Society who used to shop there just about every morning. The co-op was really part of the community.
Amy Welborn of open book posts a link to this article by the publisher announcing a new book: Crunchy Cons by Rod Dreher.
From the article:
A Country Con Manifesto
1. We are conservatives who stand outside the conservative mainstream; therefore, we can see things that matter more clearly.
2. Modern conservatism has become too focused on money, power, and the accumulation of stuff, and insufficiently concerned with the content of our individual and social character.
3. Big business deserves as much skepticism as big government.
4. Culture is more important than politics and economics.
5. A conservatism that does not practice restraint, humility, and good stewardship—especially of the natural world—is not fundamentally conservative.
6. Small, Local, Old, and Particular are almost always better than Big, Global, New, and Abstract.
7. Beauty is more important than efficiency.
8. The relentlessness of media-driven pop culture deadens our senses to authentic truth, beauty, and wisdom.
9. We share Russell Kirk’s conviction that “the institution most essential to conserve is the family.”
I was granola before I realized I was conservative. In 1989, my first full-time job was at The Lexington Real Foods Community Co-op. While I shared a lot of the beliefs of my Leftist co-workers and customers, I never really understood how abortion and sexual deviancy fit in with the holistic/natural/organic worldview, just as I cannot understand now how suburban sprawl and pre-emtive wars fit in with the Christian/conservative worldview. I still remember the little old lady from The John Birch Society who used to shop there just about every morning. The co-op was really part of the community.
Redeemed by Our Savior, I work out my salvation with fear and trembling in Pohang, South Korea, where I live with my wife, daughter, and son and teach English at a science and technology university. Baptized a Methodist and raised a Missouri Synod Lutheran in Buffalo, NY, I spent six years as a guest of the Anglican Communion before being received by the Grace of God into the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church on the Feast of Saint Andrew, my patron, anno domini 2002.
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