🧵 Now Rebecca Solnit and Paul Goodman (Gestalt Therapyhistory as call and response,Toynbee?)
> “Determinism as far as it can be conceived … is perhaps nothing else but the law of residues.” This sentence alludes to a profound truth. In so far as life is decline which ultimately leads to death, it can be foretold. In a dissolving society which blindly follows the natural course of ruin, catastrophe can be foreseen. Only salvation, not ruin, comes unexpectedly, for salvation and not ruin depends upon the liberty and the will of men. #CharlesPéguy #Arendt