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<\/a><\/p>\nlots of things happening at the same time… can’t keep up with the insanity<\/p>\n<\/div>
We’ve been there… Interesting that two Unions (United States, United Kingdom), who went through the Chicago School trainwreck (Reagan, Thatcher) decided at the same time (votes Trump, Brexit) to get away from institutions born from WWII (NATO, EU.) We’d better engage, if we don’t want to get back to the World of Yesterday<\/a>…<\/p>\n The endless train of academics were also called upon to contribute to the nation\u2019s growing number of periodicals. In 1937, The New Republic<\/em>, arguing that \u201cat no time since the rise of political democracy have its tenets been so seriously challenged as they are today,\u201d ran a series on \u201cThe Future of Democracy,\u201d featuring pieces by the likes of Bertrand Russell and John Dewey. \u201cDo you think that political democracy is now on the wane?<\/strong>\u201d the editors asked each writer. The series\u2019 lead contributor, the Italian philosopher Benedetto Croce, took issue with the question, as philosophers, thankfully, do. \u201cI call this kind of question \u2018meteorological,\u2019\u00a0\u201d he grumbled. \u201cIt is like asking, \u2018Do you think that it is going to rain today? Had I better take my umbrella?<\/strong>\u2019\u00a0\u201d The trouble, Croce explained, is that political problems are not external forces beyond our control; they are forces within our control. \u201cWe need solely to make up our own minds and to act.\u201d<\/p>Don\u2019t ask whether you need an umbrella. Go outside and stop the rain. Thank god there’s the Superbowl and J.Lo to remind us of a time where things where good… sort of.<\/p>\n
\n\u2013 Jill Lepore (New-Yorker 01\/27\/2020<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>
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