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What happened to Conservative Intellectuals?

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>What happened to Conservative Intellectuals?

>> No.17025139

They were powerless against the Jews

>> No.17025140

They were, are and always will be an oxymoron

>> No.17025145

>>17025137
William F. Buckley is a mediocrity. There are very few good American "conservative" "thinkers".

>> No.17025147

>>17025137
There are no intellectuals anymore. There is no intellect anymore. Nothing is real. Nothing will ever be real again. There is no "tradition" to be kept, no "tradition" to be revived, merely ghasts and spooks of the past. All politics, all media, all art has become LARPing. Everyone is LARPing.

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>>17025137
Any conservative intellectual that believes in the Burkean conception of conservatism as a dialectical process is not worth his salt. Such a conservatism incontrovertably leads to the preservation of "liberal progress", moral relativism and ultimately nihilism. Instead, we should rediscover the Ancient Greeks and return to a conception of society according to natural law.

>> No.17025210

>>17025137
They were never intellectual
Buckley never stood up to the same level of any person he has been compared too. He was the face of the Conservatives because that was the best they could find.

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>>17025167
>Instead, we should rediscover the Ancient Greeks and return to a conception of society according to natural law.
Agreed!

>> No.17025240

>>17025137
There's some still out there. Patrick Deneen's book, Why Liberalism Failed, is good. Any well known conservative intellectual isn't, with the best stuff coming from almost 100 years ago.

>> No.17025245

>>17025167
>Instead, we should rediscover the Ancient Greeks and return to a conception of society according to natural law.
An impossibility as the material conditions are radically different.