Sticky Glue, Social Contracts, and Fulcrum Institutions: A Painting in the Rijksmuseum Talks to me
Blog: How's Europe Doing - posted 25 March 2011 - The Washington Monthly.Hill is in the Rijksmuseum, in Amsterdam, viewing the painting, Entry of Queens (1899) by Otto Eerelman. It shows a young woman of eighteen, named Wilhelmina, who is about to be crowned queen of the Netherlands, and her mother, Emma, who is Queen Regent. They are in a military procession surrounded by hundreds of soldiers costumed in dress blues, on parade in Amsterdam. Hill points out that every generation, as well as every nation and political order, makes its agreements, its social contract, bonded by the “sticky glue” that holds it all together.
Blog: How's Europe Doing - posted 25 March 2011 - The Washington Monthly.Hill is in the Rijksmuseum, in Amsterdam, viewing the painting, Entry of Queens (1899) by Otto Eerelman. It shows a young woman of eighteen, named Wilhelmina, who is about to be crowned queen of the Netherlands, and her mother, Emma, who is Queen Regent. They are in a military procession surrounded by hundreds of soldiers costumed in dress blues, on parade in Amsterdam. Hill points out that every generation, as well as every nation and political order, makes its agreements, its social contract, bonded by the “sticky glue” that holds it all together.
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