Murdoch's claim to be conservative is a sham

I find myself more irritated by the media than I usually am watching Murdoch's destruction of the 168 year old newspaper, “News of the World,” even if the paper was vulgar. Hacking into the private lives of citizens to sell more newspapers would not have happened if we had not lost the two principle that Russell Kirk said the West depends upon, archiac as they may sound: the spirit of the gentleman and religion. The rise of Murdach and his ilk has happened along with the destruction of these Western values.

Murdoch's claim to be conservative is a sham, the neoconservatism of Fox News isn't conservatism. True conservatism subordinates economics to higher ends, economics is only a means to the development and well-being of the community. Murdoch and his media empire are busy reshaping and modifying the public mind against traditional economic nationalism into a global monster of decadence and destruction.

Can we recover? T. S. Eliot said there is no such thing as a lost cause, defeat and dismay can be a preface to our eventual victory. Some people say we should welcome the fall of the West so that a new healthy culture can rise. Some men advocate totalitarian racialism, seeking to exclusively save the people of the West. But there are too many people, to many cultures, too many races on earth to expect exclusive rights for any one people. We need to shrink back to small, independent states, virtual ethnostates, for all people, all races, protected with a light federalism. Nothing else seems realistic.