It s hard for me to get very interested in today s political squabbles. You know you re politically homeless when you go to a John Birch Society dinner and you feel you re surrounded by well-meaning liberals. Anarchy might be great, if only it could be enforced. I guess the label that suits me best is reactionary utopian. I want to go back to a better world that never quite existed.
Most people are conservative in the wrong way.
They accept whatever they re used to as the natural order of things. They have no sense that the world really went radically wrong somewhere, and is still going further wrong. In this sense, people who think Bill Clinton left this country in fine shape are supremely conservative. Right now we enjoy the highest level of comfort and prosperity in history. But to make that the criterion of the good life is swinish.