DK spells out the scenario for making good Whig progressive restoration political authority history, in this passage below, when the "winners" in some current crisis (any crisis) have seemed to emerge from the recent conflagration triumphant, representing the verdict, the judgment of history, finally, when the dust has settled, in their favor:
"...There is, I think, a profound connection between political and intellectual anarchy. That is why, as a favorite Harvard professor of mine remarked nearly 50 years ago, history thrives in periods of restoration--that is, the 20-40 years after a great political crisis, when political authority has won renewed respect, society is relatively stable, and there is enough time, and calm, to think. We do not live in such a time. I do not know when it might return.
Anyone is welcome, anytime, to tell me how wrong, and how misguided, I am.
After all, this is merely a blog. Not an affair of state.
Speaking of affairs of state, one can end up having an old European royal in the family, without having intended it. Such a thing can happen by accident, as it were. Kismet.
I know this makes little sense, but there it is.
It makes democratic twaddle pale into utter insignificance.
Anyone is welcome, anytime, to tell me how wrong, and how misguided, I am.
After all, this is merely a blog. Not an affair of state.
Speaking of affairs of state, one can end up having an old European royal in the family, without having intended it. Such a thing can happen by accident, as it were. Kismet.
I know this makes little sense, but there it is.
It makes democratic twaddle pale into utter insignificance.
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