Here is just a side note: “It’s always darkest just before the dawn” seems to be a thought with some profound currency. But, it is wrong. We know this from experience — at least those of us who have actually been out just before the dawn. Remember “…by the dawn’s early light …” Of course, there really is a dawn’s early light. So, a false flag? Or, just some chronic late riser trying to cheer us up in the middle of a (your adjective here) situation?
It can get darker still and may never reach dawn as you imagine it in a metaphorical sense.
Today, President Trump seems intent on withdrawing the US from the entire post–World War II structure of interlocking diplomatic, military, and economic agreements and organizations that have preserved peace, stability, and prosperity since 1945. His preference for bilateral relations, conceived as zero-sum rivalries in which he is the dominant player and “wins,” overlaps with the ideological preference of Steve Bannon and the so-called alt-right for the unfettered self-assertion of autonomous, xenophobic nation-states—in short, the pre-1914 international system. That “international anarchy” produced World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution, the Great Depression, the fascist dictatorships, World War II, and the Holocaust, precisely the sort of disasters that the post–World War II international system has for seven decades remarkably avoided. Robert Brown 2018
(What I call the new Dark Age capped off with the USA becoming Gilead or some such Empire. RRB)
x_Tech over 5 years ago
Appears to be along time before the dawn.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DUqplxIcNk
Bruce1253 over 5 years ago
Ah! The shadows on a cave wall argument (If you are a philosopher, you will know whence it came).
6.6TA over 5 years ago
Here is just a side note: “It’s always darkest just before the dawn” seems to be a thought with some profound currency. But, it is wrong. We know this from experience — at least those of us who have actually been out just before the dawn. Remember “…by the dawn’s early light …” Of course, there really is a dawn’s early light. So, a false flag? Or, just some chronic late riser trying to cheer us up in the middle of a (your adjective here) situation?
RobinHood over 5 years ago
It’s always darkest just before it goes completely black.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 5 years ago
It can get darker still and may never reach dawn as you imagine it in a metaphorical sense.
Today, President Trump seems intent on withdrawing the US from the entire post–World War II structure of interlocking diplomatic, military, and economic agreements and organizations that have preserved peace, stability, and prosperity since 1945. His preference for bilateral relations, conceived as zero-sum rivalries in which he is the dominant player and “wins,” overlaps with the ideological preference of Steve Bannon and the so-called alt-right for the unfettered self-assertion of autonomous, xenophobic nation-states—in short, the pre-1914 international system. That “international anarchy” produced World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution, the Great Depression, the fascist dictatorships, World War II, and the Holocaust, precisely the sort of disasters that the post–World War II international system has for seven decades remarkably avoided. Robert Brown 2018
(What I call the new Dark Age capped off with the USA becoming Gilead or some such Empire. RRB)