As Talleyrand said of the Bourbons, "They learned nothing and forgot nothing."

The fact is that while liberalism has the energy, conservatism has the organizion. Any society that ever existed has had those conforming to social norms and those pushing the boundaries. It's as elemental as the energies of youth and the experience of age.

The problem of Critical Theory is that it questions everything and proposes nothing. Even some amorphous equality is just a neutral flatline. We are the product of selection and removing one system only means another replaces it, as the Soviets found out.

There is no system of organization that is not conditional, provisional and circumstantial. They are all fragile in some ways and strong in others. The only ones immune to question are those who don't allow it.

So do we burn this one down and hope the next is better? Those who presume to cancel history tend to repeat it. Monarchies are simply oligarchies with history. And oligarchies are those who win the wars.

The problem this time around, as the monarchies found in World War 1, is that our technological ablities to wage war have outgrown the ability of society and the environment to survive it.

The fact is that every coin has two sides. When we assume our side is right, so the other must be wrong, it's usually a sign of our own lack of knowledge, than real wisdom.

So now the extremes on both sides control the situation and those in the middle lack a good fire extinguisher.