Monday, May 20, 2019

A thousand years later we’re still waiting for the lesson to sink in

An unknown author and source to me but the final paragraph addresses one of the more frequently misinterpreted anecdotes of history.
Canute’s point wasn’t that he could control the tides and waves. Rather, that fawning courtiers needed to learn the lesson of the limit to State competence. A thousand years later we’re still waiting for the lesson to sink in.

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