Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh . . . . Again, French Visions.

This Lucifer's Hammer gig just keeps getting better. There was an interesting quote preceding the "Sixth Week: The High Justice" by a fellow I'd not heard of previously: Bertrand de Jouvenel. It contained the provocative assertion that "it is impossible to establish a just social order." Needless to say (I hope),  I wanted to read more. My first stop was Amazon, as I was thinking that surely a book entitled Sovereignty: An Inquiry into the Political Good would have to be available for free for Kindle. But no . . . in fact, there didn't even appear to be an e-version of the tome. That's not something you see every day. (There was a for Kindle version of a Portuguese translation of another of his books, A Ética da Redistribuição, which had a superb cover: a drawing of a man in a suit holding another man by his ankles and shaking the money out of that man's pockets.) In the good old days you'd be looking at that illustration here, but these aren't the good old days, Carly. It's worth bopping over to Amazon for a look, though.

So I took a look at the public library . . . but they'd never heard of Bertrand. Google books? Ah. I read enough to know that I wanted to know more, and ended up watching a video someone had made called "On Power [Bertrand de Jouvenal]" (on The You Tub) which was most excellent and which contained this quote:    

"Democracy . . . is the time of tyranny's incubation."

Wow. Is that Truth in the Age of Trump or what?

So I went looking some more, and then I found this quote:

"Sooner or later, a society of sheep must create a government of wolves."

Holy guacamole, Batman. I clearly need to read a full work by this Bertrand de Jouvenel fellow. 

And lo and behold, my old two times alma mater came through, as I found that  Bellarmine University (ne College) had some Jouvenel on its shelves. 

Ahmo get me some of that.

More news as it happens.