Reminder: we’ve faced terrible things before. We’re stronger than we think. https://twitter.com/historylvrsclub/status/1178706821412016133 …
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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And although it's idiotic to attribute our present predicament to some vast, shadowy conspiracy, it's equally obtuse to pretend that it all merely happened, wholly without human intervention or intent. More people need to read Barlett & Steele. And Packer. And Thucydides.
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