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The Theseus Ship Anti-Revolution - by Dennis Bouvard

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A kind of rigor of thought and action can be derived from creating the paradox of wanting complete transformation of all social institutions but not only without revolution but without anyone particularly noticing.

A kind of rigor of thought and action can be derived from creating the paradox of wanting complete transformation of all social institutions but not only without revolution but without anyone particularly noticing. Put this way, such a stealth program seems antithetical to norms of good governance, popular will, democracy, public airing of disputes over social futures, etc. It seems downright immoral, a coup against the public, a conspiracy against the political order. But I will intensify the paradox by insisting that the program be carried out completely explicitly at each point along the…

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