The Particular Unbridled

The conservative wishes to corral changing energies into prefabricated abstractions: traditional values. The radical defines his system in opposition to stabilities of the right and thus both supports his enemy and severs himself from concrete potentials. The only way out of this impasse of warring abstractions is to embrace a third term beyond the conflict. This tertium quid is the unbridled particular, at once a site for the most traditional and the most radical: the original energy of the ancient universe, the disruptive power of the unpredictable present. -- Eric G. Wilson; thanks to torbellino.