How I Became a Techno-Futurist (Kind Of) - by Ross Douthat

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A response to Patrick Deneen on the compatibility of traditionalism and dynamism.

Of the conservative or “post-liberal” responses to our decadent society that I discussed in my last post, there’s a division — sometimes plain, some implicit — between those who are primarily interested in acceleration and those who are interested more in regeneration. The first attitude regards the growth-and-technology machine of the modern world as something that’s stalled out and needs to be restarted; the sclerosis of central governments as something that needs to be shaken off for the sake of a new American century; the collapse of birthrates as an economic and national security…

How I Became a Techno-Futurist (Kind Of) - by Ross Douthat

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