‘The hours have lost their clock’*

by Brian Coman
A REFLECTION ON THE MODERN POLITICAL ORDER IN THE WEST
PART ONE OF TWO PARTS (You can read Part Two here)
My title is not original, but comes from a translation of a poem by Vicente Huidobro, a Chilean poet from the early part of the 20th century. I have no idea of the original context but, for my purposes, it serves admirably to introduce a discussion on the loss of meaning and the loss of the notion of truth in the modern West.

In a recent two-part essay in News Weekly (th…

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