tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post4061026984124940727..comments2024-03-25T19:48:24.624+11:00Comments on Oz Conservative: It won't doUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-35231589037686057892014-01-01T10:31:53.285+11:002014-01-01T10:31:53.285+11:00Pius, thank you.
I'm not sure the Australian ...Pius, thank you.<br /><br />I'm not sure the Australian version will be the same politically as the British one, as it is a joint partnership with a local media company. Still, if they're going to have a list of bloggers attached to the site as the British papers sometimes do I'd put my hand up.Mark Richardsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15961688379656119701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-711909735202912832014-01-01T08:45:16.602+11:002014-01-01T08:45:16.602+11:00Here's an article about the 2014 plans for The...Here's an article about the 2014 plans for <i>The Daily Mail</i> down under:<br /><br />http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2514118/The-Daily-Mail-Australia-launch-online-2014.html<br /><br />Perhaps, if the newspaper is interested in Australian writers who can actually produce grammatical sentences and who could use adequate payment, Mr Richardson should consider submitting something of his own to the newspaper?Piusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-43451346263885934402013-12-30T21:38:04.219+11:002013-12-30T21:38:04.219+11:00Simon, thanks.
The Daily Mail is going to set up...Simon, thanks. <br /><br />The Daily Mail is going to set up an Australian online presence which will be interesting. Mark Richardsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15961688379656119701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-82911046174238685462013-12-30T21:17:07.939+11:002013-12-30T21:17:07.939+11:00The contribution of the creative class to leftist ...The contribution of the creative class to leftist theorizing is now limited to putting a shiny gloss on the same old same platitudinous leftist cow-pats.<br /><br />"Creative people" like actors will willingly do that, because they'll willingly ply their trade for whoever can advance their careers and define what is fashionable in their favor.<br /><br />But this is work. It's got nothing to do with inspiration. Hollywood, which is the sun source of political correctness in mass culture, is rehashing and "creating" by rote. It has not been "inspired" since possibly <i>The Lord of the Rings</i>.<br /><br />One reason for that is, when someone does something interesting and outside the political limits, like Mel Gibson's <i>The Passion of the Christ</i> nobody dares to imitate it, even for hundreds of millions of dollars. The fear is too strong. Nobody wants to be the next pariah with a dead career for even having raised the topic.<br /><br />So everybody just turns the handle of the sausage machine.<br /><br />When the radical, politically incorrect right, which is the only interesting and "sexy" right, does get some ideas off the ground, I think artists will be interested in working with them, provided they can figure out how to do so without being identified and punished. To cash in, sure, but mainly to make things fresh for once.Titus Didius Tacitusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-15851810564384459962013-12-30T20:40:57.804+11:002013-12-30T20:40:57.804+11:00I completely agree Mark. Your blog is a rare shini...I completely agree Mark. Your blog is a rare shining light in that you present a positive course of action, not just cursing the darkness.<br />I often get frustrated with the Daily Mail, which is a powerful paper with huge reach. It spends a lot of time cursing left-liberal insanity but never launches campaigns to roll back bad stuff and effect positive change. Even the Daily Express is better, but it's far less influential. Meanwhile the Left media including the BBC campaigns constantly to push their agenda.Simon in Londonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-73523813310664447862013-12-30T14:13:55.836+11:002013-12-30T14:13:55.836+11:00I think you're being a little hard on West the...I think you're being a little hard on West there cecilhenry. When he was blogging at The Telegraph he linked to Steve Sailer's blog on at least one occasion. It does take courage to do that in a MSM publication. Plus every time a mainstream writer does this it exposes the readership to a whole different universe of conservative thought. Clydenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-65442767361203760492013-12-30T14:04:39.470+11:002013-12-30T14:04:39.470+11:00Good point. I suspect that is already happening on...Good point. I suspect that is already happening on a small scale. Mark Richardsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15961688379656119701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-20366385302650520312013-12-30T14:03:01.546+11:002013-12-30T14:03:01.546+11:00West seems to be channeling fellow Brit John Derby...West seems to be channeling fellow Brit John Derbyshire's "We Are Doomed" book in that first quote.<br /><br />In any case as liberalism becomes more and more entrenched as the political status quo I believe it is natural that those with a truly creative mindset will search for an alternative as liberalism (and the political correctness that goes with it) is quite a mentally restrictive ideology. Clydenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-71033781072401026212013-12-30T11:05:54.774+11:002013-12-30T11:05:54.774+11:00I agree that his attitude is too light, but you...I agree that his attitude is too light, but you're overly harsh at the end of your comment. I don't think the problem is that he is a paycheck conservative; it's a longstanding fault within the culture of the movement that the current generation has to overcome. And the key thing is not to cede the ground that Ed West clearly does cede in his Telegraph piece. He gives to liberals the positive, dynamic, creative role, not seeing that this is one legitimate aspect of our human nature that conservatives ought to also uphold. We would not apply this creativity in a way that is detached from the rest of human nature, as liberals so often do, but we do want to positively shape the society around us.Mark Richardsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15961688379656119701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-60908969817289911742013-12-30T10:07:17.834+11:002013-12-30T10:07:17.834+11:00For anyone to make light of these issues and make ...For anyone to make light of these issues and make comments like that shows he does not grasp or believe how truly serious these issues are.<br /><br />Perhaps for him they really aren't. They're called paycheck conservatives. And they need to hang with the traitors too.cecilhenrynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-61253685930952983302013-12-30T07:12:26.839+11:002013-12-30T07:12:26.839+11:00That's ridiculous. For myself, I'm sick of...That's ridiculous. For myself, I'm sick of complaining. I wish things would go our way for a change. I wish that liberals would lose and conservatives win more often than not. Ed West could be a plant by the liberals. Is that possible? Hmmm...Laura Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15043576932031107768noreply@blogger.com