Dr. Johnson: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Surveillance State

Lafayette Lee C. Sandbatch A new southern urbanism would probably go a long, long way. Just having a city run by /ourguys/ would be incredible.

The founding generation was more deeply influenced by Livy than Locke.

I use “Southern traditionalist” to refer to a unique interpretation of the American Revolution and founding, but I think it’s inadequate when tackling the present and future. We need something more, and I think if these ideas are allowed to mature, they will unite other sections…

This is one of the great ironies of residual conservative nostalgia for the Constitution and its authors.

The documents they wrote are still revered in a deracinated state, but they only make sense in a cultural matrix that can no longer be praised or even discussed honestly.

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Southern traditionalism doesn't seek to whitewash the past but to understand it for all its complexity and tragedy. We seek to understand where we came from so that way we can better understand where we are going.

Destroy your connection to the past, and you'll ultimately…

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I don't know about 'traditionalism' and am actually very interested in Southern mindways orienting themselves towards the future rather than the past-- the okra and tomatoes and the Baptist church will be there in the future as well.

But the fact is Yarvin and Rufo can both be…

3-part symposium on the topics discussed in the Rufo vs Yarvin debate?

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Home library nationalism

From the shelves:

Deliveries persist. Complete mystery.

'It is a cosmic library, for it contains the wisdom of ages, the story of a people, and the history of my family; it helps me orient myself. Here, at least, I know my place in time, the world, and the wider universe.'
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