Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Post-Consensus Politics: A Poetic Epigraph

Here is the first stanza of "The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), a fitting epigraph to our entry into the twilight.  But for the philosopher there is consolation: "The owl of Minerva spreads its wings at dusk." (Hegel). 

    Turning and turning in the widening gyre
    The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
    Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
    Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
    The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
    The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
    The best lack all conviction, while the worst
    Are full of passionate intensity.

The Western elites have lost all conviction and are sitting ducks for the passionate intensity of radical Muslims. 


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