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Why I'm going to buy a book of poetry, a thread.
The book's cover is below. The author is @michael1crowley.
You can buy it here: https://smokestack-books.co.uk/book.php?book=202 … [1]pic.twitter.com/ECBQIKAxXs
Thanks to various people (Michael is one, @SteveDavies365 is another), I've developed an interest in the English Civil War. I'm no expert; I just like reading about it. There is something to the claim divisions in that period reemerged in attenuated form during Brexit. [2]
At first, I assumed I'd have been a Leveller - the proto-liberals who supported adult male suffrage & related. But then I did this quiz, which, yes, is a novelty quiz, but a revealing one. It's a Civil War version of the political compass. [3] https://www.gotoquiz.com/political_compass_english_civil_war_edition …
And came out as a "Recanting Cavalier"! Admittedly, I answered while imagining myself living in the period, rather than the 21st century. Since, in many ways, we are 'all liberals now', it's easy for it to spit you out at the end as a Leveller. [4]pic.twitter.com/8BGkqI04rL
The process of writing so much about Brexit forced me to dig into not only my own intellectual tradition (classical liberalism), but other people's as well. I turned out to be more Tory than I realised. [5]
While I like & admire many of the left-liberals trying to expel authoritarian wokery from their tradition, my Civil War reading led me to suspect, in many ways, wokery is as much a product of liberalism - even its apotheosis - as its enemy. Anyway, do buy Michael's book. [6]
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