Conservatives and Culture
16th July 2022
“The liberal conception of society,” the political philosopher Kenneth L. Minogue wrote in The Liberal Mind, “is… determined by the moral and political policies of modern liberalism. It has only a tenuous connection with sociological description.”
As well as, we must add, the political realities of the nation state in the twenty-first century. (Minogue’s book was first published in 1963.) Today, liberal policies are the emotional expression, translated into political terms, of liberals’ utopian aspirations toward the complete “inclusion” of every one of society’s “communities” on precisely equal terms.
Liberals will not recognize that this goal can never be achieved, and that a multicultural nation is a plain contradiction in terms. A healthy, coherent and efficient one — in contrast to a nation that is in the process of decay and decline as it succumbs further to centrifugal diffusion and flies outward into an infinitely expanding universe — is the political expression of a single, or at least a majoritarian, culture, and not a confusion of many diverse and antagonistic ones.