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I love to throw that around?! Darn, I've failed... I usually uphold it as a failure, seen-the-crap-from-the-inside sort of achievement.
Fair. Old elite institutions are corrupt decaying dinosaurs.
Elite learning at Oxford survived everything: crusades, protestantism, secularism, big gov, world wars, medieval fights, empires rise and fall.
The hubris I need to honestly believe that it's permanently doomed is so insanely large
World wars and crusades and religious war — I should have mentioned the civil war! — didn't die...?
I haven't turned on some intl news tv channel in a year or so but if I would, I bet I'd see a world at war, a bunch of retarded crusaders and somehow religion still being at the center stage of at least half the wars. It all just got a bit more asynchronous and agile.
Civil war is a good one tho and I think that it's, like occupation, among the riskier for an institution. Closeness to home and all.
You posted something about a visit a year or so ago, which was definitely showing that they pretty much got their shit figured out. So I do think that your resilience point stands. It's interesting to figure out the tools in the toolbox to make it so.
The hubris I need to honestly believe that it's permanently doomed is so insanely large
i'm sure you're up to the task
You get to sound smart and erudite. In other words you get to act like @denlillaapan who loves to throw around the fact he went to Oxford (or Cambridge?).