I think most of us agree that ideas have consequences and false ideas are less troubling than treacherous ones. While the former are easier to repel with stiff foresight and page after page of classic readings, the latter appeal to our worst side, to the diabolic imagination „which delights in the perverse and subhuman”, as Russell Kirk would describe it.
Let’s stay on guard because nowadays the proliferation of shady ideas and deceptive apostles has reached a level never before known in history. Yes, it is true that modern means of communication make it easier for everyone, friend or foe, to disperse any kind of message. It is also true that modern men, especially in Europe or America, tend to yearn for straightforward ideas, for effortless narratives, for wheedling palliatives. We cannot oppose the trend, but we can become part of the trend. How? For sure not mingling prophetic declamations with alarmist stories about a secret apocalypse that is delivered to us by some sort of unrevealed fellowship. (mai mult…)
Între 3 și 5 noiembrie a.c., a avut la București conferința internațională „Conservatism – The Right Alternative. Towards Security, Prosperity and Peace of European Nations”, organizată de European Conservatives and Reformists (grup din Parlamentul UEuropean). Cu această ocazie, am prezentat o comunicare în limba engleză intitulată „The Case for coherence: Conservatism between consensus and confusion”. 