Q 在这种背景下，过去十年的动荡就不难理解。从理性上讲，把民主的危机归咎于结构性力量是合理的，这包括制造业工作的减少，新媒体的兴起。在我们的历史观中，政治学已经变成了马克思主义的附属，如果还不是经济学的话。 尽管“伟人”理论表面上庸俗，但强调个人能动性的“伟人”理论还是有道理的。也许自由主义只是在消灭“伟人”，甚至包括出色的人。 https://www.guancha.cn/JananGanesh/2022_08_09_652905.shtml https://www.afr.com/world/europe/western-democracies-have-a-talent-problem-20220720-p5b31w The turbulence of the past decade makes more sense in this context. Intellectually, it is de rigueur to pin the crisis of democracy on structural forces: on the loss of manufacturing jobs, on the rise of new media. In our view of history, if not economics, my trade has become Marxian to the bone. For all its outward philistinism, though, the Great Man theory, the stress on individual agency, has something to it. Perhaps liberalism is just running out of great men and women. Or even very good ones. UQ
尽管“伟人”理论表面上庸俗，但强调个人能动性的“伟人”理论还是有道理的。也许自由主义只是在消灭“伟人”，甚至包括出色的人。
https://www.guancha.cn/JananGanesh/2022_08_09_652905.shtml
https://www.afr.com/world/europe/western-democracies-have-a-talent-problem-20220720-p5b31w
The turbulence of the past decade makes more sense in this context. Intellectually, it is de rigueur to pin the crisis of democracy on structural forces: on the loss of manufacturing jobs, on the rise of new media. In our view of history, if not economics, my trade has become Marxian to the bone.
For all its outward philistinism, though, the Great Man theory, the stress on individual agency, has something to it. Perhaps liberalism is just running out of great men and women. Or even very good ones. UQ