[Avoiding_Sulla]

It is my belief that the parallels with late-Republican Rome will become ever more obvious in the coming decades.

I think the three of us mostly are in agreement.
LCS thinks it will happen faster than that. [insert link here]
I think the potential is there, and intentionally so. As LCS often points out, "the left is not about ideas, it is about power," and they are in the avante garde of the power seekers -- the pushers upon the bounds of whatever will be called on each succeeding day. "Progressives in action. Pardon our dust." :^)

We may be on the verge of an equivalent to the Social Wars. We must keep our wits about us to avoid proscription! ;^)

This is why I ask all my present and future friends to go through the pain of reading and absorbing C.S. Lewis' The Abolition of Man.*
(Given enough time, I may offer on FR my view of every passage in it. I've already a running start. 8^) )
Lewis shows us how and why so few of us have been schooled as thoroughly as one would suppose a truly benevolent society would wish.

Regards

--Av
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*subtitled or Reflections on Education with Special Reference to the Teaching of English in the Upper Forms of Schools.

[headsonpikes]

I have only read excerpts from 'The Abolition of Man'.

On your advice, I will locate and read it. ;^)

[Avoiding_Sulla]

erratum [insert what was omitted]

As LCS often points out, "the left is not about ideas, it is about power," and [I add] they are in the avante garde of the power seekers -- the pushers upon the bounds of whatever will be called [excess] on each succeeding day.

PS to LCS -- apologies for forgetting to include you in number233. Your ears must've been burning even in your sleep.