A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative. ↗
The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing, has become ridiculed. ↗
In the business of politics, emotions and productive dissatisfaction with the world in which we live today are gradually being covered up by the minutiae of ordinary life. ↗