It showed up between chapters 44 & 45 and appears to be an essay by one S. Nightengale, another Medium writer.
I'm not sure what it has to do with War and Peace BUT if you read on you find a reply by Denton which is one of the most depressing things I think I've ever read.
We look at ourselves and the wonderful gains we’ve made in the economic and social spheres and see a permanent — or at least durable — situation. But, if history is any guide, it may very well prove that this flowering of liberalism that brought us these advancements will soon wither and so with it all the progress. Liberalism is young and certainly not the historical norm. This makes it fragile. But despotism has centuries of practice and has therefore grown robust. It’d be nice to think that liberalism will endure but in all likelihood this liberal period of civilization, limited though it is to just a small portion of the planet, will be looked back on as the aberration rather than the norm of political and social organization.
We should, however, strive to keep the liberal project alive. But the prospects don’t look good.
Just wondered if anyone else saw that, and what you thought. And what's it got to do with
War and Peace?
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