Monday, December 05, 2022

Vichy Mandarins

To paraphrase Burke, all that is nevessary for barbarism to triumph is for civilized men to do nothing: but in fact for the past few decades, civilized men have done worse than nothing - they have actively thrown in their lot with the barbarians.

- Theodore Dalrymple, Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses

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