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Himmelfarb Knew You Before You Did
[NRO Staff 02/24 06:35 AM]From the mailbox: All this Crunchy Con business reminded me of Gertrude Himmelfarb's "One Nation, Two Cultures". She even mentions the very crunchy concept of "selective separatism":
"...selective separatists: people who vote, pay taxes, have ordinary jobs, and do community service, but who choose...not to participate in those parts ot the culture that do not bring glory to God...
...the strategies that might be thought of as countercultural - homeschooling, building up a self-contained pop culture are flourishing....parents attempt to shelter (but not isolate) their children from what they regard as an un-Christian and immoral culture...
...a great many people who, to varying degrees, have exempted themselves from the worlds ot Disney, network TV, videogames, movies, fashion, People magazine, and the other cathedrals of pop culture. They have done so...because they are offended by one or another aspect of the culture ...The quiet rebellion against the arrogance of pop culture will continue..." (pp. 154-155).
Best Regards,
Joćo Noronha
Lisbon, Portugal
P.S. Look forward to reading the book - it's still flying over the atlantic. Things would be much easier for us clients of gigantic online book shops if the manufacturer of the big, global atlantic would have instead produced a small pond.
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