Via Instapundit and Ed Driscoll, comes this piece by novelist Andrew Klavan where he points out the obvious - all "lifestyles" and "cultures" are not equal. Well, obvious to anyone who doesn't think Western Civilization in general, and America in particular, is a great failure:
"Beating poverty in America nowadays is largely a matter of personal behavior. Get a high school diploma, don’t have kids until you’re married, don’t get married until you’re 21, and you probably won’t be poor. It also helps if you work hard, show up on time, act courteously, and avoid anything felonious.
But where are these kids going to learn such things? It’s the stuff you just sort of absorb in a healthy, traditional, two-parent home, and that’s exactly what they’re missing. If they learn what they’ve lived, they’re done for—the girls too likely to “come out pregnant” like their mothers, the boys to be underemployed and maybe even do time."
He also chides Conservatives for allowing our culture to become a monopoly of the Left:
"Many conservatives often seem to have given up on culture or not to care. There’s a strong strain of philistinism on the right. When we talk about “culture wars,” we usually mean preventing the courts from redefining marriage or promoting abstinence instead of birth control: culture, in other words, as the behavioral branch of politics."
Read the whole thing.
And James Lileks has a related ideological test. (Just scroll down once you get there, and stop when you see the kid with the BB gun.)
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