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The liberal international order is slowly coming apart. Its collapse could be sudden and irreversible. (www.economist.com)

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I’m not going to prematurely celebrate the collapse of the liberal international order as it may yet find a way to limp along a while longer. But.

We have already seen earlier, when discussing world schematism, that in connection with this Hegelian nodal line of measure relations — in which quantitative change suddenly passes at certain points into qualitative transformation — Herr Dühring had a little accident: in a weak moment he himself recognised and made use of this line. We gave there one of the best-known examples — that of the change of the aggregate states of water, which under normal atmospheric pressure changes at 0° C from the liquid into the solid state, and at 100°C from the liquid into the gaseous state, so that at both these turning-points the merely quantitative change of temperature brings about a qualitative change in the condition of the water.

—Engels, Anti-Dühring

There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.

— Vladimir Lenin, allegedly

“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked.

“Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually, then suddenly.”

— Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

Quote Investigator: Days Into Which 20 Years Are Compressed

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago

Change often unfolds in a gradual manner, with its true impact only becoming apparent when an inflection point is reached. As the current system operates within acceptable parameters, the subtle accumulation of issues may go unnoticed. However, as these problems continue to pile up, they eventually reach a critical mass that renders it impossible to maintain the status quo.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The Engels quote goes so hard

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

finkelstein-lambaste

Herr Dührnell

Herr Dührelli

Herr Dühringo

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

The Engels one fucks