Russian disenchantment with Western liberalism has produced a worldview hostile to end-of-history triumphalism. The rise of this ideology may be another sign of liberalism’s decline, but its tenets set it at odds with liberalism’s socialist critics.
Humanity, we may imagine, in the absence of climate collapse, is likely to exist for many thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of years to come.
"I imagine that, in the absence of drinking a lot of alcohol, I am unlikely to die in a car crash tonight."
"I imagine that, in the absence of drinking a lot of alcohol, I am unlikely to die in a car crash tonight."
I can't figure out why he chose to write that. Makes him look like an undergrad with a wordcount to inflate.
-The Bartender cut me off and my friends took my car keys but I stole 2L of pure ethanol which I'm skulling and I have a spare key in my wallet.