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The 'current' and 'eddy' analogy is one that is very useful. It helps one to see how 'durable' can arise from the 'ephemeral'. But, then, I'm a Heraclitian.

If I understand this author's point, those who are fans of 'the eternal' and 'permanent' need to accept that *if 'the modern' can exist* it must partake of 'the eternal'. In other words, however it appears to us mortals, 'fractures' in history are an illusion, a matter of accounting, not counting.

Those who accept the reality of 'the eternal' must accept that everything that can *exists* partakes of 'the eternal'...including the fleeting.

'The modern' is - in some way not easily perceived - an expression of the eternal...which is also the origin of endless change.

And that includes the

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The political trend is always to be observed, partly as a spectacle, partly for one's own safety. The liberal is dissatisfied with regime; the anarch passes through their sequence - as inoffensively as possible - like a suite of rooms. This is the recipe for anyone who cares more about the substance of the world than its shadow - the philosopher, the artist, the believer.

Ernst Junger

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Seen politically, systems follow one another, each consuming the previous one. They live on ever-bequeathed and ever-disappointed hope, which never entirely fades. Its spark is all that survives, as it eats its way along the blasting fuse. For this spark, history is merely an occasion, never a goal.

Ernst Junger

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