Larger context for ALWAYS in Corpus brown_strip.txt DBL-CLICK WDS FOR DEF
Its essence lies in its attempt to recover previous order through the repression of disruptive forces.
To this end political authority is called upon to exercise its negative and coercive powers.
The implicit assumption of this response is that history is reversible.
Seemingly, order is perceived as a kind of subsistent entity now covered by adventitious accretions.
The problem is to remove the accretions and thereby uncover the order that was ALWAYS there.
Such a response, of course, misses the point that in crisis order is going out of existence.
Moreover its posture of stubborn but simple resistance is doomed to failure because of the metaphysical weakness of the existent form of order, once the activation of change has reached visible proportions.
The most reaction can achieve is stasis, and a stasis that can be maintained only by the expenditure of an effort which ultimately exhausts itself.
