Tuesday, February 17, 2004
"A man incapable of actually doing anything..."
This from Scat-Man Carothers:
posted by Blicero : 2/17/2004 01:49:00 PM
Vain, glory-loving, restless, agitated, but at the same time incapable either of perseverance or of action, [Bush] was simply an epicurean, a hard drinker, a romantic, and a petty tyrant on the throne. As a man incapable of actually doing anything, he doubted nothing. It seemed to him that royal power, in the mystical, divine mission of which he sincerely believed, gave him the right and the strength to do absolutely anything he took it into his head to do: to accomplish the impossible, to unite the categorically incompatible, in defiance of logic and all the laws of nature and society.
...But there was nothing serious in any of this. He accomplished only one thing: by his constant efforts, which kept supplementing and contradicting each other, he turned the whole of the old order upside down and thoroughly shook up his subjects from top to bottom. Everyone began to anticipate something.
That "something" was the revolution...
-Mikhail Bakunin, "Statism and Anarchy", 1873, Ch.VI
posted by Blicero : 2/17/2004 01:49:00 PM
