{Democracy or Destruction}[13th April 1991]

[Redbook9:91][19910413:1056j]{Democracy or Destruction}[13th April 1991]

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‘Just as enthusiastically as [the Mongols]* had destroyed citied life, they now rebuilt it, relying as had all previous invaders on the administrative skills of indigenous Persian-speaking bureaucrats.’

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If the natural O[uter] C[ircle] cycle involves this sort of repeated destruction and renewal – the way in which it happens depending on the stage of the cycle to which it is ‘advanced’ or ‘postponed’ – perhaps the submission of democratic government to periodic popular re-election (or dismissal) is the self-sacrifice needed to give the i[nner] c[ircle] contra-rotation required in order to avoid periodic destruction*** and attain a kind of institutional immortality.****

*[Square brackets per ms]

** – ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 22:] 121

***{cf [(presumably) [Redbook9:72][19910411:0935j]{The Law (Shariah) [continued (10)] – Legitimacy}[11th April 1991],] 72}

****{& see [[Redbook9:92][19910411:0935l]{Ibn Khaldun’s cycles of history}[11th April 1991],] 92↓ re succession}

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