Reminder: we’ve faced terrible things before. We’re stronger than we think. https://twitter.com/historylvrsclub/status/1178706821412016133 …
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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