And we would start to practice. We would practice alone, and in groups. We would get better. We would try to find venues for performances, and we would find those venues, and we would perform. We would do it again, even with no hall in the offing.
Musicians do that.
According to biographer James Lincoln Collier, Benny Goodman practiced on the day he died. Professor Fukuyama points hopefully to the politics of liberal democracy, and to human nature. And there is something to that. Ethical acts apart from religious roots, he says, are like cut flowers, that may flourish in a vase for a while, but eventually die. You can't play if you don't practice.