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> Weber relied on a view of historical change as accidental or something that
> just happens because, inexplicably, some charismatic leader emerges to lead
> the sheeple. (Not that Weber was a leftist, but some leftists, in the way
> they conceive of "duh people" tend to imply that the only thing that will
> save us is special people that will lead the revolution.
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> On this view which, as Burke pointed out, tends to pick and choose from all
> kinds of theories, what happens is a lot like what happens with radical
> feminist position on social change. The only way to make it happen -- since
> everything is a matter of being an oppressed or the oppressed -- is to
> constantly exhort people to change their personal behavior -- Because
> structures of domination shape every single thing we do, there's no way to
> escape it. The only way is to shun it all.
To whom thus Michael. Justly thou abhorr'st
That Son, who on the quiet state of men
Such trouble brought, affecting to subdue
Rational Libertie; yet know withall,
Since thy original lapse, true Libertie
Is lost, which alwayes with right Reason dwells
Twinn'd, and from her hath no dividual being:
Reason in man obscur'd, or not obeyd,
Immediately inordinate desires
And upstart Passions catch the Government
>From Reason, and to servitude reduce
Man till then free. Therefore since hee permits
Within himself unworthie Powers to reign
Over free Reason, God in judgement just
Subjects him from without to violent Lords;
Who oft as undeservedly enthrall
His outward freedom: Tyrannie must be,
Though to the Tyrant thereby no excuse.
Yet somtimes Nations will decline so low
>From vertue, which is reason, that no wrong,
But Justice, and some fatal curse annext
Deprives them of thir outward libertie,
Thir inward lost: Witness th' irreverent Son
Of him who built the Ark, who for the shame
Don to his Father, heard this heavie curse,
Servant of Servants, on his vitious Race.
Thus will this latter, as the former World,
Still tend from bad to worse, till God at last
Wearied with their iniquities, withdraw
His presence from among them, and avert
His holy Eyes; resolving from thenceforth
To leave them to thir own polluted wayes;
And one peculiar Nation to select
>From all the rest, of whom to be invok'd,
A Nation from one faithful man to spring:
Milton, PL12, 79-113