Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Birkenstocked Burkeans

NRO - Confessions of a granola conservative.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Rod is 100 percent correct.

Matt

Christopher Blosser said...

The Granola Conservatives I know tend not to be wealthy, but labor in the creative and intellectual vineyards as writers, professors, and artists. They also tend to be religious. It's foolish to go too far in metaphysicalizing questions of taste, but a big part of it, at least for those of us who are part of older Christian traditions, comes from learning to see the world sacramentally. In the sacramental vision, which is shared by Catholics and the Orthodox, the spirit world is mediated through the material world, which is another way of saying we experience God in creation. To someone imbued with a sacramental vision, qualities inherent in things — from the food we eat to the buildings we live in — matter in profoundly spiritual ways.

I don't have time during the week to read the NOR 'CrunchyCon' blog (I plan to digest it this weekend), but if the distinctive traits of a 'CrunchyCon' are (as articulated in Rod's column) a respect for the environment, a healthy diet, a marked aversion to "bad beer, lousy coffee, Top-40 radio, strip malls, and all popular manifestations of cheapness and ugliness" -- I appear to be a curious amalgamation of Crunchycon, Neocon, AND Whig-Thomist. ;-)

Anonymous said...

The CrunchyCon(Catholic) is not different than the venerable GK Chesterton(or Belloc) who once said
""The Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar."

Enjoy Beauty, and those the facade to the side.

Fr. D.L. Jones said...

If (and that's a big IF) Crunchy Cons are "Whigs," than I guess I'm a Whig also.

Christopher Blosser said...

I wouldn't consider you a "Whig", Dave, because "Whig-Catholics" have 1) sold their soul to the Zionist-Neocon Conspiracy; 2) are war-mongering bloodsuckers of the capitalist industrial war machine.

Insofar as you've declined to do so, I can't see them letting you join their club. ;-)

Anonymous said...

Also 3.) They've made their peace with the industrial revolution.