Our modest argument, which no doubt would be dismissed out of hand, is that the Internet Reformation is similar to its big brother – the initial Reformation that was, in our view, an outgrowth of the Gutenberg Press.
If one examines the post-Gutenberg Press history, one might well conclude that during these great "information revolutions" statist power structures tend to DEGRADE. There is a devolution of power, not an accrual of it.
Mr. Davies is an obvious contrarian! History shows us one thing and he sees another! Perhaps this explains why the book in its sixth printing. We can only assume that, as with most so many such "books," the elites themselves are likely organizing the buying campaign.
How, after all, did George Soros's psychotic tracts get published? Did you ever bump into ANYONE who read Hillary Clinton's thousand-page reminiscence? Or Bill Clinton's for that matter? Yet the Clintons' books, we are told, supposedly sold hundreds of thousands or even millions.
Even the interviewer apparently can't believe what he's hearing toward the end of his interview. In fact, Davies himself can't continue on with this argument. Here's the paragraph in question:
Would he regret the passing of the EU or the euro? This is where Mr. Davies's sensibilities as a historian rub against his personal sympathies as a European. He comes dangerously close to telling me that the European project can cheat the forces of history and economics. But he keeps his scholar's head. "People don't see very often their death coming. . . . Look at the French Revolution: The king of France was thinking in the 1780s, 'We're doing rather better than my father in the 1770s.'"
Conclusion: The idea that because people are terribly unhappy with the European Union as it is they will therefore seek to enlarge it and make it even more dictatorial seems a bit ... unusual, in our view. But, hey, we're not lucky enough to be "court historians."
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