Those societies which retain, in changing circumstances, a lively sense of their own identity and continuity (which are without that hatred of their own experience which makes them desire to efface it) are to be counted fortunate, not because they possess what others lack, but because they have already mobilized what none is without and… Read More »Michael Oakeshott on political activity and continuity The post Michael Oakeshott on political activity and continuity appeared first on Drive...| Driverless Crocodile
I flatter myself that I love a manly, moral, regulated liberty as well as any gentleman of that society [the English Revolutionary Society, which wrote a letter to the French National Assembly in support of the Revolution], be he who he will; and perhaps I have given as good proofs of my attachment to that… Read More »Edmund Burke on Circumstances and Political Principles; or, Context is King The post Edmund Burke on Circumstances and Political Principles; or, Context is King appeared fir...| Driverless Crocodile
It would be no surprise to me if it came as no surprise to you that running a leaf blower for thirty minutes produces far less pollution than driving a Ford Raptor from Texas to Alaska. Or that an hour’s use of a leaf blower emits nowhere near as much carbon as driving a Toyota… Read More »Fact check: Comparing Leaf Blower Carbon Emissions with Pollution from Cars The post Fact check: Comparing Leaf Blower Carbon Emissions with Pollution from Cars appeared first on Driverless Crocodile.| Driverless Crocodile
You can’t start a fire without a spark… and fuel… and… Asked what a cause is, we may be tempted to say that it is an event which precedes the event of which it is the cause, and is both necessary and sufficient for the latter’s occurrence; briefly, that a cause is a necessary and… Read More »| Driverless Crocodile