Familiarity may indeed,
as the saying goes, breed contempt, but it also breeds a sort of somnolence.
People who have never known anything other than a certain state of affairs—even
an extraordinarily problematic state of affairs—have a tendency not to notice
it at all, to relate it, so to speak, as if they were sleepwalking through it.
Such is the situation of modern people in relation to the state. They have
always known it, and they take it completely for granted, regarding it as one
might regard the weather: whether it brings rain or sunshine, lightning bolts
or soothing spring breezes, it is always there, an aspect of nature itself.
Even when it proves destructive, its destruction still qualifies as something
akin to “acts of God.”…..To Read More……
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