Revolution and History

Rand Simberg points to a Walter Russell Mead essay, written while Mead was in London on July 4th, with a post titled Thoughts On The Revolution, without comment, except to say, “Read the whole thing,” after providing an excerpt from Mead’s essay.

Mead’s essay is titled London Fourth, and it is an interesting read, and the essay touches on the subject matter which has occupied a number of my recent posts.

An excerpt from Mead’s essay I found particularly interesting.

In that sense, the forces that drove the American Revolution are still coursing through our politics now.  While a significant number of Americans (usually relatively affluent and well educated) want a transformational government acting in the service of a coherent moral vision, larger numbers of Americans start getting nervous when they see too much movement in that direction.

I hope that larger and larger numbers of Americans begin getting more and more nervous in order to check the do-gooders who believe that morality can be legislated into existence, because it cannot.

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