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#391 - Tim Stanley - Why Are We Yearning For Tradition In 2021?

Modern Wisdom

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How Did the French Revolution Work?

Once you have torn up the old order in the old constitution, than anything's possible. Once a constitution had been written, it was effectively suspended. And once constraints of ritual and custom had gone as well, you also made it far easier to impose a tyranny. So there was an attempt then to rebuild society from the ground up. The consequence of that was not democracy, of course, it was revolutionary dictatorship.

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