The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
Humor
Nothing is so irretrievably lost to a society as the sense of fear it felt about a grave danger that was subsequently coped with.
Fear
Author complains about "the further submergence of irrecoverable history into a perpetually churned present.
Culture, History
Because of demagogues, rhetoric has a tainted reputation in our time. However, rhetoric is central to democratic governance. It can fuse passion and persuasion, moving free people to freely choose what is noble.
Motivation
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