One like, one strategy or tactic I think is appropriate to Fabian Toryism.
1. Reactionaries should participate in “old men clubs” and cultivate purposeful relationships with elders. Make it easy for the older generation to pass the flame on to the young.
2. Tacitly and explicitly encourage “leftist” policies that allow for more effective family formation, such as more time off, paternity leave, and effective wage control to make it easier to have families.
3. Speak the truth or remain silent. If you ever contradict the progressive consensus, make 💯 sure that you are right and they are wrong. At least in public discourse.
4. Develop deep connections with people not based on shared enmity (although that can be a start) but a shared vision of the future. Tories can articulate a far, far more compelling vision that fully automated luxury communism.
5. Emphasize clarity and simplicity in your thinking and communication. Modern leftist thought is incredibly obtuse and theoretical. This is a great way to connect the intellectual Tory tradition to the common man.
6. Address issues of race and sex relations directly and earnestly. Neither accepting the frame of the woke or ressentiment, nor being as naive as our conservative forefathers of the 1960s.
7. Create implicitly Tory friendly communities of art and creation. Short stories, audio drama, YouTube like things. Emphasizing themes of ancient complexity. Earnest and exegetical interpretation of fairy tales and traditional folk tales. Briar Rabbit, etc.
8. Learn how to do things that are part of your culture. Look into antiques of your profession, ancestry and nation. To love your neighbor you have to love yourself, and this is where leftism and liberalism fail.
9. Learn and cultivate the ability to subordinate yourself to those who have power. This is the power of the Tory that the liberal lacks.
10. Be pragmatic. If it’s stupid and it works, it isn’t stupid. Systems of thought and ideologies are looked upon with suspicion by the Fabian Tory. Historic models and stories are used to both describe the world as it ought to be and to compare to the circumstances.
11. Cultivate joy in life rites and your community as it is. A Tory can’t be sullen and autistic about such things.
12. “The essence of Toryism is enjoyment...as far as communicating and establishing your creed are concerned—try a little pleasure. The way to keep up old customs is, to enjoy old customs; the way to be satisfied with the present state of things is, to enjoy that state of things”
13. Be flexible. Tailor a solution to the moment. You have a far larger reservoir to pick from than moderns do.
14. Humans are imperfect and imperfectable by human effort. Trying to make us even into demigods or pagan gods will turn us into monsters. Much better to absolve and try to be better next time.
15. Be concerned with the whole of the human community. Liberalism focuses on the individual and leftism on the collective. The relation of the individual to the community at multiple levels of aggregation is what matters. Good pets, families, parishes, cities and nations.
16. Loyalty to persons is the key.
17. It is enough reason to preserve something because our ancestors loved it. For example, it is enough reason to preserve Yellowstone national park because Teddy Roosevelt loved it.
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