ABSTRACT
Visions of Order completes the Weaver canon. He began writing the manuscript about two years after completing The Ethics of Rhetoric. Visions of Order should be read as the successor to Ideas Have Consequences. Weaver was confident the Southern tradition would survive these current dark ages. Familiar themes argued in previous books are addressed again in Visions of Order. These include education, the idea of progress, science, the need for distinctions and hierarchy, and the catastrophic consequences of total war. Weaver’s blistering criticism of machine worship continues to underscore his preference for a society in a pastoral setting. The pattern of assailing present trends and offering ways of recovery is also present in Visions of Order. In Ideas Have Consequences, Weaver railed against modern man as a spoiled child unable to reject demagogic leaders. Visions of Order thus provides another arresting vision of barbarism in the saddle.
