I bet the Pope uses a Mac. He likes everyone to be the same everywhere... He has even brought back the Latin mass. That's regress for you!
Politicians of all parties take it for granted today that they must promise changes - naturally, changes for the better. The once mythical radiance of the word 'revolution' has faded in our days, but far-reaching reforms are demanded and promised all the more insistently. This must surely mean that there exists in modern society a deep and prevailing sense of dissatisfaction precisely in those places where prosperity and freedom have attained hitherto unknown heights. The world is experienced as hard to bear. It must become better. And it seems that the task of politics is to bring this about. So since the general consensus is that the essential taks of politics is to improve the world, indeed to usher in a new world, it is easy to understand why the word 'conservative' has become disreputable and why scarcely anyone views lightly the prospect of being called conservative, for it appears that what we must do is not preserve the status quo but overcome it. Values in a Time of Upheaval, p. 11
Change is the one constant of political discourse it seems...
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Paradoxically, I've come to the view (based on our record in the past few ones) that following our next federal election we'd probably end-up governed by the party which made the fewest announcements in the campaign-season ('initiativitis' tends to scare the punters.)
I bet the Pope uses a Mac.
Well, they do come in white...
Interesting quote, Michael.
I wonder what Ben XVI would make of the Cardinal Newman quote: "To live is to change and to be perfect is to change often"?
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