Recalls the “reformer” archetype of the late 19th / early 20th centuries. Wilson, Donovan, Elihu Root, Edward House. Or even Lippman. Technocrats who see the old problems (then, the party boss system) clearly. But it is their efforts to domesticate elite power (bringing it out of cigar choked back rooms and into institutions) which proliferates institutional bloat and stagnation while real power shifts ever diagonally upward and out of frame. The “progressive” bourgeoisie will rebuild the entire ancien regime as a series of contingent support beams to the edifice of an enlightenment state.
Recalls the “reformer” archetype of the late 19th / early 20th centuries. Wilson, Donovan, Elihu Root, Edward House. Or even Lippman. Technocrats who see the old problems (then, the party boss system) clearly. But it is their efforts to domesticate elite power (bringing it out of cigar choked back rooms and into institutions) which proliferates institutional bloat and stagnation while real power shifts ever diagonally upward and out of frame. The “progressive” bourgeoisie will rebuild the entire ancien regime as a series of contingent support beams to the edifice of an enlightenment state.
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