Comments on: Conseratives and Culture http://www.philipklein.com/2005/12/conseratives-and-culture/ Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 28 Jun 2006 02:16:13 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Mike http://www.philipklein.com/2005/12/conseratives-and-culture/comment-page-1/#comment-619 Mike Sat, 24 Dec 2005 20:58:42 +0000 http://www.philipklein.com/?p=852#comment-619 Shhhh, don't tell the liberals, but there are more rumblings than you think. I think the intellectual front is essential won (or at least major operations are over). Culture is the next front, from what I'm seeing even out here (in San Francisco) post modernism is on its last legs. There is a new generation of educated, artistically broad-minded people coming up. I hate to say it, but in some ways, Rand's Romantic Manifesto - i.e. that great art should glorify man - isn't completely off base. At the least, great art should tap into something universal and inspire, and that's an area in which much of the creative masturbation of the last 40 years - even when clever or amusing - has failed. Shhhh, don’t tell the liberals, but there are more rumblings than you think.

I think the intellectual front is essential won (or at least major operations are over). Culture is the next front, from what I’m seeing even out here (in San Francisco) post modernism is on its last legs. There is a new generation of educated, artistically broad-minded people coming up.

I hate to say it, but in some ways, Rand’s Romantic Manifesto – i.e. that great art should glorify man – isn’t completely off base. At the least, great art should tap into something universal and inspire, and that’s an area in which much of the creative masturbation of the last 40 years – even when clever or amusing – has failed.

]]> By: Richard Tenorio http://www.philipklein.com/2005/12/conseratives-and-culture/comment-page-1/#comment-618 Richard Tenorio Mon, 19 Dec 2005 04:37:02 +0000 http://www.philipklein.com/?p=852#comment-618 Good points, Phil. Yes, a conservative independent film studio, or a patron of conservative artists -- recalling the Renaissance -- would certainly help bring about more conservative contributors to our national culture. Ben Stein, "Mallard Fillmore" and Ted Nugent are currently lonely warriors on the culture front. Good points, Phil. Yes, a conservative independent film studio, or a patron of conservative artists — recalling the Renaissance — would certainly help bring about more conservative contributors to our national culture. Ben Stein, “Mallard Fillmore” and Ted Nugent are currently lonely warriors on the culture front.

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