[Sam the Sham]

There is a conundrum of conservatism, which is that economic liberty tends to degrade the culture. There is a strong profit motive for titillation, cheap thrills,'pushing the envelope', and a destructive aesthetic of 'cool' over quality. Not to mention the profit motive for exploitation, cheating, etc.

Precisely. What is conservative about Viacom teaching your daughter to dress like Britney Spears ? What is conservative about its open sympathy for the sodomite cause ? MTV has done more for sodomite rights than any politician ever did.

During the 60's this was called the Cultural Contradiction of Capitalism. That mass media advertising inevitably destroyed the "Poor Richard's Almanac", 1750 Scottish Presbyterian values that had nurtured capitalism in the first place. Consumer capitalism devours the moral consensus that a libertarian society would need.

[thoughtomator]

I've put up with more than enough of your strawmen. I think this is a done and shut discussion, anything productive has long been said and now you're just wasting my time.