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We forget that the Nazis, too, rejoiced in the destruction of Dresden as they, like other totalitarians, believed in the tabula rasa as a means of freeing mankind from a 'contemptible enslavement to the past', as Le Corbusier described it. And anyway, what shrink would allow a creepily enigmatic tabula rasa to live alongside her own flesh-and-blood children? The American constitution was based on the powers Americans received from their ancestors, and "not at all on a tabula rasa, like the French. |
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