Reflections 11th February.

On the half life of doctrine, and domestication as the price we pay inside the walls.

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Robert Conquest’s Three Laws of Politics:

Everyone is conservative about what he knows best.

Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing.

The simplest way to explain the behaviour of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies.