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A circumstance has changed, and so you must rule this way and not some way of the past. Steady state, trouble state, resolution: the narrative theory is Nietzschean, Hegelian. Or steady state, trouble state, redress: that too is Nietzschean, because you cannot always transform. Sometimes precedent is still necessary; we are not quite ready to move beyond it, we cannot yet discern the clear path to the future toward which precedent is propelling us.