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Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. I think you’re all aware—you who are religious or maybe secular—you’re all aware of a force in the universe that what comes around goes around.
Or in classical mythology and Greek and Roman studies, there was the goddess Nemesis that pays back hubris or arrogance. I think in Eastern philosophy and religion the term is “karma.” And in the New Testament it is: ”Do unto others as you would like them to do unto you.”
But there is something innate to the human condition that you should not go in one direction in excess because there’s a force in the universe that corrects us and brings us back to the middle,…
