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Sound political action requires a deep perception of human limits (cognitive limits, moral limits, technical limits) and of the many possible effects of our actions.

Having a clear sense of limits and possibilities requires a well-cultivated habit to pay attention to reality.
Such habit is the definition of prayer (Simone Weil).

So, good politics requires a prayerful mind, and our age is the least qualified ever to produce good politicians.
(while at the same time it expects its salvation from politics, to an extent rarely seen before).
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From DN's' "Problem of Atheism" (1963): "The historical result of Marxism is, on the one side, Communist reality, in the way it has become realized, and on the other the affluent society ... In a certain sense, Marxism has already completely won, but negating itself most totally.
Because of this victory, there is the tragic situation of Christianity today, such as it never happened before: it is in a vise between two opposite types of society, which share a common origin, neither one of which is Christianizable. A parallel situation holds for liberalism..
The affluent society is characterized by 'natural irreligion,' by the 'loss of the sacred,' by the rejection of the dimension of tradition and of the past, because all values have been found to be relative to specific historical situations.
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The modern opposition of universal/timeless vs. national/historical (Enlightenment vs. Romanticism) is really another manifestation of rationalism, namely of the denial of the transcendent. If truth transcends us, ideals must always find new partial historical realizations.
Thus, from a more traditional perspective ("Christendom") each "nation" corresponded to one implementation of a universal, inexhaustible call (embodied by the founding saint/king/evangelizer) which could take many historical forms while remaining universal.
By contrast, the modern idea of nation is, as DN says, a reduction of the idea of tradition, because it no longer refers to an ideal (which by nature is universal, although amenable to many "incarnations") but simply to a historical past that does not carry a universal value.
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Observing the birth of 1960s progressivism DN noted that it was not based on a philosophy, but exclusively on a vision of European history in which "Fascism" was the culmination of centuries of irrationalism, authoritarianism, jingoism etc..
Being the synthesis and fulfillment of EVERYTHING wrong in modern European history, Fascism was thus elevated from being one contingent historical evil to the rank of absolute, ultimate evil. This had two consequences:
a) the necessity to break radically with the past, since even its apparently positive achievements were tainted by the association with proto-Fascism

b) the expectation that the elimination of Fascism would coincide with the radical liberation from evil in the political sphere.
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