The desire for quiet, for good cheer, for comfort, is as deeply rooted within us as the contradictory desire for ownership, dominance and adventure. Philip K. Dick portrayed in The Man in the High Castle a vision of Nazi Germany triumphant, forty years after the war. A moderate faction is coming to the fore, struggling for dominance, renouncing the excesses of its forebears. It is easy to imagine, for it has happened in so many other places and times in the world. Moderation is what we achieve in a state of rest, while fundamentalism represents the results of motion and disturbance.
Evil always recurs but always wears out.
Exhaustion is our best guarantee of moral, if not technological progress. Dawn comes after sleep. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.