MiembroSocial-Conservatism

Cultural & Social Conservatism, Traditional Catholicism, Sex & Race Realism, Rational Traditionalism, Conservative Communitarianism, Civil Order, Hierarchy, Morality, Ethics, Anti-Statism

This account, a virtual organization, is a partial, and searching, archival list of books that directly and indirectly relate to cultural conservatism. It is a defense of the virtuous life and virtuous society. Given the library's contents, the books naturally overlap in tag categorization. It is hoped that this archive will provide an antidote to, and refuge from, modernity. But it is only a starting point.

For the skeptical man who believes "culture doesn't matter," _Life at the Bottom_ by Theodore Dalrymple is a good place to begin. It provides convincing anecdotes in showing the destructive effects that a lack of culture has on men, particularly those who are poor.

The organizer of this archive believes that man, by nature, is not good, virtuous, or noble. Biology, history, religion, and other fields show this to be false. Cultivation and persistence is what truly lifts man above the beasts. Without taming evil desires, only chaos and destruction can result. It is a conservative culture that is meant to make men, men. Just as important, such conservatism is meant for man to "simply" understand the, non-utopian, human condition.

While this archive defends tradition as indispensable, it does not defend tradition blindly or in a relativistic way. To see the value of tradition depends on standing outside it to interpret it qua tradition. Men, for example, must search for that which transcends tradition. Moreover, it is what traditional conservatism lacks that certain forms of anarcho-libertarianism provide. That is, in the first place, a universal, objective view that sees violence against the non-violent as unethical and counterproductive; and in the second place, sees the impossibility of a monopolist in law and order in providing a stable civil and conservative order.