I read the following, er, right-leaning editorial on the current situation in France...
http://www.suntimes.com/output/steyn/cs...eyn06.html
...and it struck me that under-girding the writer's point was a view of history that you get from Robert E. Howard, and perhaps also from the original Elric series. The key factors are mobs/hoards, weak and self-serving politicians, and also a hostile cosmos given over to catastrophe--balance is more often established through clashing extremes than through foresight and wise policy making.
I haven't traveled around enough in France to know it. What is going on there? Prognosis?
http://www.suntimes.com/output/steyn/cs...eyn06.html
...and it struck me that under-girding the writer's point was a view of history that you get from Robert E. Howard, and perhaps also from the original Elric series. The key factors are mobs/hoards, weak and self-serving politicians, and also a hostile cosmos given over to catastrophe--balance is more often established through clashing extremes than through foresight and wise policy making.
I haven't traveled around enough in France to know it. What is going on there? Prognosis?
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