Reminder: we’ve faced terrible things before. We’re stronger than we think. https://twitter.com/historylvrsclub/status/1178706821412016133 …
Too many of us suppose that we may with impunity place and maintain in positions of tremendous power and responsibility leaders we know to be incompetent, unsound, and venal. Like Romans in the days of Heliogabalus, we imagine our empire capable of surviving even lunatic rule.
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This is perhaps the most astonishing thing about our present predicament. Too many of us seem willing to view the duties of citizenship whimsically -- indeed even ironically, as though to take them seriously were a mug's game. We imagine it doesn't much matter what we do, or why.
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How and why we've come to this pass seems of very little general interest. Very few of us even bother to ask, "Cui bono?" Tacitly we assume that some sort of law of nature has made us jaded, complacent, and fractious -- that (in Dickens' memorable phrase) it's "nobody's fault."
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