Front Porch Republic
frontporchrepublic.com · Group blog · on HN since 2010
Front Porch Republic is a group blog on localism, community, meritocracy, and place, with contributors from both right and communitarian left.
What HN saysCommenters link it for essays on meritocracy and wanderlust, and one describes it as mild-mannered with some communitarian left contributors.
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vwcx · 2019-12-28
Your comment reminded me of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s thoughts - how wanderlust can keep us from leading meaningful lives. Worth a read: https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2019/04/wanderlust-keeps-us-from-le…
lliamander · 2017-09-14
First of all, Breitbart may use a definition like the one I provided, but I think so would the rather more mild-mannered Front Porch Republic[0], which should be noted has contributing members that identify more with the communitarian left than anything right-wing.
As for your suggestion to "just google" it, I decided to take you up on it. The first result I got was a definition from Wordnik:
"A national geopolitical policy in which the entire world is regarded as the appropriate sphere for a state's influence."
That seems to match up quite well with the first clause of my definition. Does Steve Bannon own Wordnik or the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language? I doubt it. Wikipedia doesn't really go into detail about specific ideological commitments.
How about the second clause? Well, certainly the phrase "backwards and unenlightened" implies that I perceive globalists as haughty and vain. What of it? I don't think they're evil incarnate. I've met a fair few. They seem decent enough.
Nonetheless, I think that if you believe that national boundaries should go away, and you come from a relatively high educational background (which many globalists seem to) then, in a dispassionate way, "unenlightened" is exactly how you are going to view those who insist on maintain local hegemony based on traditional institutions.
> If I defined 'libertarians' as, say, 'people who won't answer the question "How often do you beat your spouse?" with a simple yes or…
_Codemonkeyism · 2017-02-20
"The Decline of Middle America and the Problem of Meritocracy", from 2009
http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2009/05/the-decline-of-middle-americ…
laotzu · 2015-11-06
Agreed but it is just postponing the inevitable. The bailout and bankruptcies made their closed-source hierarchical paper system even more highly centralized, while the superior electric medium is doing the exact opposite in becoming more decentralized, distributed, and open source.
http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/big-bank-…