POLSCI 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Present Laughter
17 Oct 2018
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Prefer to be tried to the intried. Familiar relationships and loyalties will be preferred to the allure of more profitable attachments. To acquire and to enlarge will be less important than to keep. The grief of loss will be more aucte than the excitement of novelty or promise. Value in the past and respecting what is and what was. Writing in uk during 1770-1790, french revolution. Very traditional monarchy under louis the 16th. Called meeting to estates general, louis was in debt. 3 diff estates and third estate (commoners) decided to create new national assembly. Society was on reason will lead to utopian outcome. Looks good on paper - actually violent, desperate, terrifying. Burke predicted that it would end in tyranny - any type of revolutionary project is likely to end in disaster. Why revolutionary plans fail: reason is fallible and limited.
