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From the writings of Theodore Dalrymple (Anthony Daniels), my most favourite conservative writer.

But even if change is inevitable, that portion of change that is the
result of human thought and decision is susceptible to moral
evaluation. Change is inevitable, but not any and all change; some of
it is the work of deliberate destruction. And while any observation
upon a complex society is necessarily partial, its partiality is not
in itself proof of its inaccuracy. The essential truth of 1984 is not
invalidated by the survival in the Soviet Union of Richter and
Shostakovitch. Finally, even if it is true that old men by nature
lament, sometimes they have been right to lament, and sometimes they
have not lamented enough. It all depends.
		-- "The end of virtuous Albion", Theodore Dalrymple
		   http://newcriterion.com/archives/24/09/the-end-of-virtuous-albion/

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