From
“The Human Condition: A User’s Manual” by Arnold Kunst
Looking back over his 91 years just before
his death, Churchill might very well have seen his life as an elongated,
multifaceted failure – the evidence that way seemed overwhelming. Consider the
following: the Empire he was born into and championed unabashedly was
emasculated by two world wars into that toothless media construct known as the
British Commonwealth; when out of power he issued cries to an unresponsive
England about fascism in the thirties; when out of power he issued cries to an
unresponsive England about communism in the fifties. And how does any man
comfortably accustomed to wielding massive power adjust to being shunted off
like some once-crucial but archaic steam engine to a back-water world of
painting and writing? How could he possibly settle for the banality of writing
history after the ultimate high of having made history?
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