Maggie's Farm

from the review:

"The risk of Mr. Dreher's crunchy conservatism is its potential to become just another "lifestyle choice" that the market is perfectly happy to satisfy. Rock music can be used to sell cars, so why not country music to sell the crunchy con lifestyle? The rejection of (some types of) consumerism is itself inseparable from a free market that makes consumerism possible. Crunchy cons may end up little different from David Brooks's bourgeois bohemians, who go barely mentioned here. Crunchy cons would have their virtue and still live in enclaves of liberal cities that provide the crunchy amenities unavailable, say, in East Coast rust-belt towns."


"The risk of Mr. Dreher's crunchy conservatism is its potential to become just another "lifestyle choice" that the market is perfectly happy to satisfy."

this thought from a paragraph near then end
of the article sums up the thoughts and mental images
the review was picturing for me right thru.

i can't help thinking this "lifestyle trend" attitude
of modern,multi-culti society is a brief window in time,
like the one between the Cold War and our current geo-political situation.

humans like solving problems,
but become very itchy when they cannot define the
next boogey man planning to eat them.

and that tendency cuts across every
political and religious boundary.

there is no Utopia,
and we wouldn't trust in it
if it arrived...it's a survival mechanism,
and i believe it is quite old.