"La salvaguardia della libertà delle nazioni non è la filosofia nè la ragione, come ora si pretende che queste debbano rigenerare le cose pubbliche, ma le virtù, le illusioni, l’entusiasmo, in somma la natura, dalla quale siamo lontanissimi." Giacomo Leopardi (1820).
Monday, October 24, 2011
Violence and Fragility, Summarized
Here is a metaphor that occurred to me as I finished my last post.
Violence is to the body politic what inflammation is to the body. In critical moments, it may save us from acute danger, but as a chronic condition it is utterly ruinous.
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