As nature anticipates intelligence, so liberalism anticipates tyranny. We can sense of natural order its necessary evolution in complexity, while of the other, its inevitable decline into corruption. The one gathers wisdom into its folds; the other spends its worth in promises and excuses, social theory and stratagems of power. The one keeps variety in all its forms, encouraging an infinite success; the other lays down its template, bending the world into enormities that fail and fall. "The best lack all conviction," wrote W.B. Yeats in his poem "The Second Coming" as he and his generation were disturbed by the threat of socialism in Europe at the end of the First World War, "while the worst are full of passionate intensity." It is the concern of all enlightened societies when armies of unreason invade and occupy the centers of culture and government. The worst find identity and purpose in a shame culture environment, in tribal myths, in organized...(Read Full Article)