Conservative books of interest

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Be courageous; the race of man is divine.   Golden Verses of Pythagoras

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Be courageous; the race of man is divine.   Golden Verses of Pythagoras

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Kurt Vonnegut - Player Piano

We are all doomed by the stupid among us, no matter how hard we try....

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Among the many brilliant writings of Russell Kirk this one published in 1974 is a needed profound study of the elements & history of "law & order" in our Republic.

Here is a little from chapter one:

QuoteLike many other concepts, perhaps the word "order" is best apprehended by looking at its opposite,
"disorder." A disordered existence is a confused and miserable existence. If a society falls into general
disorder, many of its members will cease to exist at all. And if the members of a society are disordered in
spirit, the outward order of the commonwealth cannot endure.

We couple the words "law and order"; and indeed they are related, yet they are not identical. Laws
arise out of a social order; they are the general rules which make possible the tolerable functioning of an
order. Nevertheless an order is bigger than its laws, and many aspects of any social order are determined
by beliefs and customs, rather than being governed by positive laws.

This word "order" means a systematic and harmonious arrangement—whether in one's own character
or in the commonwealth. Also "order" signifies the performance of certain duties and the enjoyment of
certain rights in a community: thus we use the phrase "the civil social order."

In this book, we examine the roots of order in the United States of America. Old and intricate, these
roots give life to us all. We can distinguish two sorts of roots, intertwined: the roots of the moral order, of
order in the soul; and the roots of the civil social order, of order in the republic.

[...] The "inner order" of the soul and the "outer order" of society being intimately linked, we discuss in
this book both aspects of order. Without a high degree of private moral order among the American people,
the reign of law could not have prevailed in this country. Without an orderly pattern of politics, American
private character would have sunk into a ruinous egoism.

Order is the first need of the soul. It is not possible to love what one ought to love, unless we recognize
some principles of order by which to govern ourselves.

Order is the first need of the commonwealth. It is not possible for us to live in peace with one another,
unless we recognize some principle of order by which to do justice.

The good society is marked by a high degree of order, justice, and freedom. Among these, order has
primacy: for justice cannot be enforced until a tolerable civil social order is attained, nor can freedom be
anything better than violence until order gives us laws.
Be courageous; the race of man is divine.   Golden Verses of Pythagoras

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By Barak Lurie from 2017 comes this examination of the long term effects of secular indifference or hostility to the sources of spiritual and religious ethics.

https://www.atheismkills.com
Be courageous; the race of man is divine.   Golden Verses of Pythagoras