Quote: (11-01-2018 10:02 AM)Alsos Wrote:
Intellectual integrity. A sincere commitment to the truth and its honest pursuit, versus the thought-fads, ”consensus" parroting, shilling, bad-faith cherry-picking, gotcha-ism, malicious and tendentious misinterpretation, outrage-parsing, and all-around sophistry that passes for discussion on any topic nowadays.
Grown men behaving as such. Dressing appropriately for the occasion (meaning work clothes for work as much as "Sunday clothes" for more formal occasions). Being a leader in their family, business, and community - and if not a leader in the latter two, a productive follower or team member. Demonstrating emotional continence, self-restraint, and self-confidence. In contrast to loosely-termed men who wear basketball shorts and flip-flops in public, don't want the responsibility of leadership (or can't handle it) but peevishly resent and interfere with any other man taking it on, melt down or rage at the slightest provocation, and are generally insecure and indecisive man-children rather than adults.
People taking pride in their appearance, and that of their families, homes, neighborhoods, and communities. People of Sears-Roebuck vs. People of Walmart.
The idea that as citizens you work together to improve your community and country, rather than every tiny faction competing to wield power over all the others, and to destroy every person or institution that stands in the way. Practical, realistic caution and probity (Chesterton's Fence) over ignorant, malicious, and nihilistic "revolutionary" zeal or harebrained idealistic schemes for social regeneration that are so good they have to be implemented thru deceit or force.
Start a country under these ideals and I'll move there.