Even of if a certain backlash is unavoidable, we must make the most of the momentous chance with which history has presented us so swiftly and so unexpectedly.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Events are moving so fast and what in one moment seems impossible, the next is happening. I'm sure historians will, in time, provide theories and analysis, but for now I think most of us simply want the tide stemmed.
Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor foreordained, but subject to a thousand changes and chances.
How often things occur by mere chance which we dared not even hope for.
History is full of times when the inevitable front-runner is inevitable right up until he or she is no longer inevitable.
Obviously there will be a backlash. If you believe the hype you have to believe a backlash too. Any criticism we get, is always stuff we've already criticised ourselves.
If history is going to repeat itself I should think we can expect the same thing again.
History keeps teaching us that we can't recognize the important events that are going to trigger changes.
The cruel ambush of 9/11 supposedly 'changed everything,' slapping us back to reality. Yet we are constantly shocked, shocked by the foreseeable.
The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas.
So often, we don't realize that the very moments in which we live become our history, our story.
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