The wave of change sweeping through the world is merely the backwash of the previous wave that crashed against the rock of history.
There are things in the world you can change, and others that are destined to remain as they are because they are so deeply rooted in human nature that they cannot be uprooted.
Human beings are neither inherently good nor inherently evil; both Rousseau and Hobbes were wrong. Humans are the crossroads between being and nothingness, the only creatures capable of self-sacrifice and of sacrificing others, of hating and loving, transcending the laws of necessity and causality. We are angels and demons, saints and sinners in potential.
Any political philosophy or historical movement that fails to recognize this dichotomy and absolutizes the particular, isolating it from the universal complexity of our being as a cosmos, will eventually come to an end.
And this precariousness of history is frightening, but at times, it is the only hope.
