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I am now read a book by Rod Dreher, “Crunchy Cons”. It is a controversy takes on the conservatives that now is becoming a countercultural to the mainstreamed conservatives and liberals.
On the front cover, the block text go on,
How Birkenstocked Burkeans, gun-loving organic gardeners, evangelical free-range farmers, hip homeschooling mamas, right-wing nature lovers, and their diverse tribe of countercultural conservatives plan to save America (or at least the Republican Party)
This is such contrasting statement how Dreher describe the conservatives. Birkenstock? Organic?
Dreher’s chapter on Consumerism, he tells his experience meeting Wade Davis, the Harvard anthropologist, who studies the vanishing indigenous cultures around the world.
The conservation between Dreher and Davis after the lecture which I find it interesting…
We say we believe in marriage, but half our marriages end in divorce. We say we love our children, but look how we let them live. We say we believe in the family, but you don’t see it in the way we behave. You can say a lot of things about Americans, but ‘they’re happy’ is not one of them.
The thread of a conservation between Davis and Dreher made me thinks how we hold on our beliefs yet our actions don’t reflect what it aligned with the belief.
The solution American’s misguided dream maybe is to make a committment and live what we intended to live our life.
