On Jul 6, 2011, at 6:50 PM, Angelus Novus wrote:
> Walter Benjamin wrote that the revolution is like slamming the brakes on the train of history.
Really? He said that? Why not taking the controls instead?
The brake imagery sounds a lot more like William F. Buckley:
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/223549/our-mission-statement/william-f-buckley-jr
"Let’s face it: Unlike Vienna, it seems altogether possible that did NATIONAL REVIEW not exist, no one would have invented it. The launching of a conservative weekly journal of opinion in a country widely assumed to be a bastion of conservatism at first glance looks like a work of supererogation, rather like publishing a royalist weekly within the walls of Buckingham Palace. It is not that, of course; if NATIONAL REVIEW is superfluous, it is so for very different reasons: It stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it."