Quote of the Day
Posted by Chicago Boyz Archive on August 13th, 2013 (All posts by Chicago Boyz Archive)
It is extraordinary how long a nation will allow itself to be misgoverned.
Rudolf Binding, A Fatalist at War (1926/1929)
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Posted by Chicago Boyz Archive on August 13th, 2013 (All posts by Chicago Boyz Archive)
It is extraordinary how long a nation will allow itself to be misgoverned.
Rudolf Binding, A Fatalist at War (1926/1929)
August 13th, 2013 at 8:07 pm
He was speaking about….?
August 13th, 2013 at 8:35 pm
Russia. He has a diary entry when he heard about the March 1917 Revolution. But it struck me as being of general, maybe universal, application.
August 13th, 2013 at 9:11 pm
Yeah, I figured it was intended for general applicability, but thought maybe it had been inspired by something the Kaiser or one of his minions did…
August 14th, 2013 at 6:33 am
Centuries, if Russia is any guide. Millennia,if Italy.
August 14th, 2013 at 6:44 am
Depends on the culture?
August 14th, 2013 at 12:17 pm
Depends if the people are actually a “nation” which implies some self-awareness and literacy. But more generally it is a sad fact that masses of people are held enslaved by tiny numbers of people because the tiny group are armed and have self-confidence in their right to rule, and the inchoate mass cannot get organized to overthrow them. That is most of history. Nauseating.
August 14th, 2013 at 12:25 pm
It is certainly the story of Iran right now.
I think it was Adam Smith who said “There is a lot of ruin in a great nation.” I fear we are test that hypothesis this century.
August 18th, 2013 at 12:16 pm
The Czarist regime was the justification the Social Democrat leadership could offer to their base for supporting the war loans in the Reichstag. Without the party’s support the loans wouldn’t have been approved by parliament and Germany wouldn’t have been able to go to war. Funny how things turn out sometimes.