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But the fear of the new is often as strong as the fear of the void, even when the new is the overcoming of the void. That explains why the many only see absurd chaos where a new meaning seeks to introduce its order. Indeed, the old nomos is fading away, dragging the whole system of redundant standards, norms, and traditions with it in its fall. But what is coming is not therefore devoid of standards, is not a pure nothingness, inimical to any nomos. Even in the fiercest struggle between old and new forces just standards emerge and meaningful proportions form.

Here, too, are gods that rule.

Ample are their bounds.

Carl Schmitt¹

Notes

1 1. Carl Schmitt, Land and Sea, trans. Simona Draghici, Washington, DC: Plutarch Press, 1997, p. 59 (transl. amended).