But his argument doesn't explain the adoration of Palin, the super-individualist (if you put lipstick on John Galt, he's still John Galt).
I grew up in the very racist south, and the attitudes of present-day conservatives, and their emotional defensiveness about them, appears to me to descend directly from those conservative values. Loyalty means "we" are better than "them." "Social order" means "our way or the highway."
It took me a good part of my adolescence, in the late fifties, to learn to see beyond that kind of thinking. He's right that I don't get it, and I hope I never get it again.
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Date: 2008-09-11 07:48 pm (UTC)I grew up in the very racist south, and the attitudes of present-day conservatives, and their emotional defensiveness about them, appears to me to descend directly from those conservative values. Loyalty means "we" are better than "them." "Social order" means "our way or the highway."
It took me a good part of my adolescence, in the late fifties, to learn to see beyond that kind of thinking. He's right that I don't get it, and I hope I never get it again.