Sadly, that’s the story of mankind. I don’t know if you’re religious or not, but the bible shows this exact pattern of mankind’s perpetual rise and fall for the same reason over and over again. We never learn.
The hidden warning inside this warning: “ quite often, the revolutionaries who were so instrumental in bringing about the revolution are purged – and by this I mean killed en masse – because they’re considered too dangerous to have hanging around.” Wondering how soon after the election the Night of the Long Knives is scheduled for.
As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began.
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool’s bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;
And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!
For a man with a 126 IQ, entertaining a w’world of 45’ (no reference to POTUS intended), my head hurts!
Socialism/communism is just the counter-revolution to the worldwide democratic/Republican Revolution that the founding of the USA started. It’s the attempted return to tyrannical rule either by dictatorship or new Royalties like North Korea and Cuba.
The Bible speaks about the people clamoring for a King and how sorry they were when they got Saul.
“The Western republics that emerged from the Age of Enlightenment wrested power from Old World oligarchs and installed it with the governed.”
It’s quite simple to see the monstrous secular humanist religions of communism, Nazism and gaiaism as the direct descendants of the Enlightenment.
Nietzsche recognized that. When the enlightenment had “killed God”, the world would spasm with the realignment of world order.
Enlightenment crowned humanism supreme. The logical endpoint of humanism is bizarre utopias created by man’s reason like the isms above. And here we are.
What the author really wants to do is go back to the point where humanism had not completed its task.