America’s Inertia And Incrementalism Crisis
Crisis Blizzard Essay first published on Medium . Consider first the French Revolution. Today, many American conservatives demonize it, and denigrate the Age of Enlightenment because of the mob mentality excesses in its last few years , and final grisly outcome as well as the status-quo upsetting ideas the philosophes produced. In the late 18th century, Sir Edmund Burke feared their radical ideas, also propagated by Thomas Paine, could spread across the channel, but thought incrementalism was the best way for Britain to avoid such tumult, and that the nation’s generational continuity held the answer to its future thriving. However, it was his almost servile linkage to this institutional progression , derived at that time from an aristocratic “DNA” that we are concerned with here. He figured minor tweaks indicated by a proper structure of the forefathers’ inheritance or knowledge-base is basically all that is ever needed. Inertia : the property of matter by which it reta...