An inconsequential event that nevertheless, in my opinion, is evidence of the capillary infiltration of an imposed ideology. I roughly estimated the ages of the demonstrators to be between 15-18, possibly even younger.
One neighborhood, in the instance, shows the decent and respectable habitations of middle fortune perhaps too low for great designs, and too high for penury and distress.ĭuring one such drive in one such neighborhood, a group of youngsters of both sexes (in the now antique sense) darted towards my car, waving a large rainbow flag and a sign with the script LGBTAI. This enables me to avoid the feverish races as who will be first at the next traffic light and, occasionally, to partake of the feeling of the various neighborhoods. In my spaced-out expeditions to a supermarket to resupply my modest (vegetarian) pantry, I drive whenever possible through secondary roads. Considering that history is concerned with the relation between the unique and the general – and that a historian can no more separate them, or give precedence to one over the other, than you can separate fact and interpretation. Which, in turn, inspired an attempt at a short history of the developments of one distinct phenomenon of our times. An effect similar – so I am told – to a citizen of the Republic of Dagestan when he speaks Russian.Ī harmless yet unexpected event triggered the long train of thoughts above. Fluellen’s Welsh accent makes his statements automatically amusing, independently of content. In the circumstances, a palliative to dispel the gloom of melancholy and the feeling of helplessness, may consist in attempting to unravel the mingled yarn of causes and effects, so as to better understand the dramatic changes in the current Zeitgeist.įor “There is occasions and causes why and wherefore of all things” as says Fluellen, a clever soldier in the army of Shakespeare’s King Henry V. Nor can we see how it may be feasible to take arms against a sea of current troubles, and by opposing end them.Īs an example, the events connected with the special operation in Ukraine show how difficult and bloody it has been for justice to triumph over unadulterated evil, even if, at the moment, the operation is still extant. Many of us – I think – equally assume that predictions “are to the world in general” and not to ourselves, or feel cut away from the roots of hope.
“Yet Caesar shall go forth for these predictions are to the world in general as to Caesar.” And we know what happened.
“What can be avoided whose end is purposed by the mighty gods?” – he replied. However, out of politeness or for the sake of domestic peace, he didn’t say so. Or maybe he thought that Cornelia believed the disinformation and fake news of the time. O Caesar! these things are beyond all use,īut Caesar believed in the inevitability of destiny. “Horses did neigh, and dying men did groan,Īnd ghosts did shriek and squeal about the streets. Much as Julius Caesar insisted on attending the Forum in Rome, on March 15, notwithstanding his wife Cornelia’ strong objections and warnings: Meaning that the slings and arrows of outrageous prevarication, of crime, of political choices and of plans hatched behind his back, are but the outcome of an incumbent and inevitable destiny.
And that the hallucinating social changes currently occurring – and of which he is sometimes the victim – are akin to a force of nature. The mythical average citizen probably believes that the universe is under the perpetual superintendence of uncontrollable forces.
Civilization synonym plus#
By Jimmie Moglia for the Saker Blog – plus a fundraiser for the Saker detailed in the video below