The grand revolutionary projects of modern times—creating a classless society, a racially-pure society, a society fully acknowledging Allah’s sovereignty—are profoundly based on inquisitorial preferences and the sense, at least in the revolutionary vanguards, of being members of a cognitive elite. These are necessary parts of the enterprise, and so intimately bound up with their inherently tyrannical and murderous nature. But there are also more petite versions of the tyrannical utopian impulse.
Posted on: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 05:56:42 +0000