Sublime

Will is the dynamic of change everywhere and at all levels.

The broad-front strategy pursued by Eisenhower may well have prolonged the war six months—as many critics have charged. But during those six months Germany’s complete defeat became manifest. There was no “stab in the back” myth such as the one that poisoned German history after World War I, and in the midst of the destruction and desolation there

myth of the white man’s burden from the days of the British Empire,

The reversal of progressivism is not conservatism—nothing can be conservative in the accelerating Axial Decade. The reversal of progressivism is reactionism or revanchism, which sets the stage for a reversal into even more radical forms of progressivism.

All human cultures are at least in part the legacy of empires and imperial civilisations, and no academic or political surgery can cut out the imperial legacies without killing the patient.

Berlin was indifferent. Hitler sought to conquer as much land, and to inherit as few people, as his armies could contrive. He often cited the precedent of the nineteenth-century American frontier, where the native inhabitants were almost extinguished to make way for settlers.