{"id":1586,"date":"2023-03-06T05:02:04","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T05:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/03\/06\/lifestyle-rightism\/"},"modified":"2023-03-06T05:02:04","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T05:02:04","slug":"lifestyle-rightism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/03\/06\/lifestyle-rightism\/","title":{"rendered":"Lifestyle Rightism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Sohrab Ahmari is against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/the-perils-of-lifestyle-rightism-2\/\">it<\/a>. Clean living and self-improvement are no substitute for political action. One form of Lifestyle Rightism is Rod Dreher&#39;s Benedict Option which Ahmari dubs &quot;the New Frontierism&quot; and criticizes for its ahistoricity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Ahmari&#39;s article rehearses&#0160; one aspect of the old problem of activism versus quietism. Can one productively blend the two? I am pulled in both directions. I expose my inner conflict <a href=\"https:\/\/williamfvallicella.substack.com\/p\/quietism-versus-activism?r=f3tzc\">over at<\/a> <em>Substack<\/em>.&#0160;&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">And that brings me to the topic of inner conflict. One of the reasons I am so fascinated by Tom Merton is because he was one conflicted hombre caught between <em>contemptus mundi<\/em> and love of the world and its blandishments. He couldn&#39;t keep quiet about <em>The Silent Life<\/em> (the title of one of his better books) and was quite obviously driven by a desire for literary fame. The guy is lovable because so <em>human<\/em> unlike, perhaps, the man referred to in <em>The Sacred Monster of Thomism<\/em>, which details the life and legacy of Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, that most paleo of the neo-Thomists. (Richard Peddicord, O. P., St. Augustine&#39;s Press, 2005) But when it comes to intellectual penetration, Garrigou-Lagrange far surpasses the loose, literary, and liberal Merton. I read both, respect both, and am grateful for both.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sohrab Ahmari is against it. Clean living and self-improvement are no substitute for political action. One form of Lifestyle Rightism is Rod Dreher&#39;s Benedict Option which Ahmari dubs &quot;the New Frontierism&quot; and criticizes for its ahistoricity. Ahmari&#39;s article rehearses&#0160; one aspect of the old problem of activism versus quietism. Can one productively blend the two? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/03\/06\/lifestyle-rightism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lifestyle Rightism&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[306,64,494,73,44,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism-and-quietism","category-conservatism","category-garrigou-lagrange","category-merton-thomas","category-political-tactics","category-social-and-political-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}