That quote from Buchanan, again totally out of context, presumes that change is wholistic, one mass, when in fact change is in countless different parts, some in harmony most not. "For every gain there is a loss." (Emerson). For every decline into a racket there is a new emerging great cause or idea.
----- Original Message ---- From: joseph berg <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wed, July 11, 2012 4:33:11 PM Subject: Re: plutocrat aesthetics On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 6:28 AM, William Conger <[email protected]>wrote: > Because you seek beauty you seek the aesthetic and thus > you seek change. In social terms moral and ethical change requires > democracy > because it acknowledges individual desires.Democracy embraces the > aesthetic. > > But over time, can democracy and even aesthtics resist what may be an evolution and development that may not only be natural but inevitable?: *- Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.* Pat Buchanan
