The Flight 93 Election Crashed – The American Mind

I am a social scientist by training and have never been involved in electoral politics. Yet when I look at the American conservative movement, what I am struck most by is what an oddity it is from a historical perspective. Practically every significant movement whether ancient or modern, religious or secular, totalitarian or liberal knew that to succeed in the long run it needed to gain control of the institutions that manufacture public opinion. Yet from this perspective the American right has not simply failed in its efforts to build a more conservative society; it has not even tried.

via americanmind.org

Well this brilliant piece (or maybe I’m just over-caffeinated)is pretty depressing. If it’s correct it promises nothing better than power held by the ‘correct’ elite, which is conservative of course. The alternative, currently on display, is the all to quick prolapse of culture, politics and everything into the deep swamp of something like Chinese totalitarianism (I’ve added the Chinese bit, but that’s what it seems like to me). But Illtellyawhat, he seems spot on w/r/t the academy and the media. Oh what to do, what to do.