Plato was naive. Or rather, philosophically idealistic. He genuinely believed that virtues had to be in balance to prevent a society from going off the rails. Prudence without courage leads to cowardice, courage without prudence to recklessness. Sounds logical. Almost endearing. Especially when you look at politics today and realize: balance does indeed exist. Unfortunately, on a different level.
What we are witnessing is not a lack of balance, but a perfect equilibrium of vices. Cowardice here, recklessness there, neatly distributed like coalition seats. A harmony of failure.
In the so-called bourgeois camp, prudence prevails. At least rhetorically. They weigh the options, examine the issues, hesitate, and postpone. Decisions aren't made, but rather circled around until they wither away. Courage? Risky. Taking a stand? Could cost votes. So they remain cautious. So cautious, in fact, that prudence becomes cowardice. They call it responsibility, but what they really mean is fear of the consequences.
In contrast, the left-wing intellectual camp, with its left-leaning, left-wing ideology, is characterized by bravado. Loud, morally charged, and always ready to save the world, they embrace boundaries. Doubt? Outdated. Prudence, they believe, only hinders progress. So they charge ahead, convinced they are on the right side of history. The result is not courage, but recklessness with a clear conscience. They mean well but execute poorly, with pathos.
Plato would have said: Both sides suffer from an imbalance. One lacks courage, the other moderation. And now comes the truly bitter part: All that's needed is to bring them together to create a functioning whole. Prudence meets courage. Reason meets determination. Sounds like a solution.
But politics manages the feat of turning even this into a catastrophe. Instead of combining prudence and courage, it combines cowardice with recklessness. It hesitates where courage is needed and rushes ahead where restraint is called for. It decides late and wrongly. A masterpiece.
The result is a policy that neither protects nor leads. It apologizes for everything and takes responsibility for nothing. It talks about values but is afraid to defend them. It acts without thinking and thinks without acting.
Plato thought vices arose from imbalance. He hadn't reckoned with professional mediocrity. With a system that doesn't spiral out of control, but rather circles stably in the absurd.
We don't have extreme politics. We have a perfectly balanced mix of timidity and overconfidence. A political stasis that prevents anything from tipping over. Forward. Or anywhere.
This is no accident. This is not a failure. This is our policy. In balance…
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