Media Criticism, Political Commentary

What Glenn Beck Is Doing

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Lexington Green:

Beck is attacking the enemy at the foundations of their power, their claim to race as a permanent trump card, their claim to the Civil Rights movement as a permanent model to constantly be transforming a perpetually unjust society.

He is nuking out the foundations of the opposition’s moral preeminence, the very thing I proposed in this post.

Actually, it’s more like the pretense of their moral preeminence.

103 thoughts on “What Glenn Beck Is Doing”

  1. Pete can best explain for himself; but I think he might be saying that Beck, in calling for a restoration of “traditional” values, is being a traditionalist conservative along the likes of Russell Kirk.

    Yes, although I have know idea who Russell Kirk is. There is no going back culturally for the US, or any country for that matter.

    I do not really have a handle on who Glenn Beck is or what he stands for, but it would seem to me that for the US to get back on track it would need to focus on economic virtues and the pioneering spirit that created a great economy in the first place. The virtues that it was suggested that Glenn Beck stands for (faith, hope, honor, charity) did not seem to notably include these. Not that focusing on such virtues would be bad, but they are not the set of virtues that really need to be focussed and voted upon. The US needs economic focus.

    If he is seriously promoting smaller government then that would be economically significant. If he is suggesting an increased role for religion in place of government, then that would not necessarily be a good thing (elected government institutions are generally preferable to unelected ones – religions are hard to vote out).

  2. Re India, it’s interesting the number of articles I’ve read mentioning how, as that country’s economy gets more and more prosperous, more and more younger Indians are saying that they’ve been influence by Ayn Rand. This, of course, to the horror of the much of the older generation, steeped in both spiritual and political collectivism, bemoan the selfish individualism of these young heretics. Sounds like a familiar story.

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