I Know Exactly How And

Reality Is A Powerful Solvent.

If Words Fall Into Disrepair, What Will Substitute? They Are All We Have

I Worry That We Have Forgotten That The De-ideologized, De-politicized, Uncontentious Public Space Of The Last 50 Years As Europeans Have Experienced It Is Not The Normal Human Condition. We Shall Be Sorry To Have Abandoned A Little Too Quickly The Institutions That Were Set Up By Our Parents And Grandparents To Protect Themselves Against A Return Of The Bad Old World. Because The Bad Old World Can Still Come Back To Haunt You.

Today, Neither Left Nor Right Can Find Their Footing.

Unlike Memory, Which Confirms And Reinforces Itself, History Contributes To The Disenchantment Of The World.