A persistent characteristic
of any perceived emergency
is its tendency to bait and
switch a fellow's focus, in-
to absorption with pressing
momentary details. There is
no wonder, then, how celeb-
rants of a status quo ante
exploit an anxiety for the
familiar, even maladjusted
and unjust, conditions lately
interrupted. The President
has never been able to sus-
tain his progressive obliga-
tion while covering his ass.
The syndrome of being under-led
and knowing better is familiar
to the condition of awakening,
which is the natural state of
the free life. Even Ayn Rand
knew this, she just saw this
as a predatory posture. Now a
progressive encounters the pred-
ator in American political life
and needs to accept this oppor-
tunity as found consideration,
in the path of leadership he
has chosen; for the logic of
anxiety has drawn the predator
out with the most generous can-
dour. And yet the President con-
tinues to embrace the predator's
pretense of meaning well, and
the condition of awakening is
thwarted thus by forfeit.
A sustainable critical dis-
tance, that touchstone of
what is sometimes called,
the cultivated life, is
impossible without the em-
pathy of progressivism. It
is always timely for the
progressive to resist the
seductions of emergency,
which for him is nothing
other than the natural dis-
order of things.
AMEN!!!!
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