Rod Dreher interviewed writer Joel Salatin in his book Crunchy Cons about problems with mainstream conservatism.

Salatin: "One of the problems with conservatives is that we tend to be very Western in our thinking. Greco-Roman-linear-segmented-compartmentalized thinking. We in the conservative community love the scientific method, double-blind studies, that sort of thing, as opposed to the Eastern mind-set, which thinks more holistically, and more along the lines of 'we' than 'I.'"

Dreher: "You'll recall that that's what British economist E. F. Schumacher found.... He discovered that thinking of economic questions as distinct from human society, with all its variables, could result in greater material output, but at the cost of a greater harmony needed to sustain the happiness and well-being of the community."

Salatin: "Conservatives tend to ask how we can be more efficient, not how we can be more effective. You can be very efficient at the wrong thing."