[x]

There is something about the characterization, though the paleos are so alienated from contemporary American life that just about everything here would look "Jacobin" to them. Today's world is very different from that of Ryn's hero Irving Babbitt (who was himself quite alienated from the rest of the country during his own lifetime), so there's little hope than anything about today's America would satisfy Ryn. We can change or at least examine what we do much more easily than what we are, and that's probably where the appeal ought to be directed.

[cornelis]

Alienated? Really now, x. You've played a curious card. I suppose the senior generation must yield, like Ortega describes it. But alienated? Babbit was a titanic ant (to steal imagery from Delsol's Icarus Fallen). Alienated, on the other hand, is that very special term reserved--I presume you are well aware--for those who play the Faustian themes.