Extreme error requires extreme correction. "Extremism" is therefore relative to the error being corrected. It would be a fallacy to assume that the status quo is the perfect place to be.
What if the status quo were the Inquisition or the Cultural Revolution?
Or indeed the advanced stages of Matriarchal Dementia?
THE VOICE OF REASON Solon, (born c. 630 BCE—died c. 560 BCE), Athenian statesman, known as one of the Seven Wise Men of Greece (the others were Chilon of Sparta, Thales of Miletus, Bias of Priene, Cleobulus of Lindos, Pittacus of Mytilene, and Periander of Corinth). Solon ended exclusive aristocratic control of the government, substituted a system of control by the wealthy, and introduced a new and more humane law code. He was also a noted poet.
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