Posted on 06/16/2023 1:14:10 PM PDT by Jacquerie
In common speech we tend to use the words glory, honor, famous and fame as interchangeable terms. They share the common ingredient of praise and of an independent audience that judges behavior. Where they differ is as to what that audience is and when the praise is awarded. In the simplest of definitions, glory is associated with God. Honor involves respect from a small group, such as one’s family or fellow professionals in law, sports, writing, broadcasting, etc. Famous people are typically celebrities who enjoy shallow admiration from a wide group. That leaves the quality of fame.
In contrast to famous celebrities, fame is more inclusive and looks to the largest possible human audience, horizontally in space and vertically in time. Fame is the reward for the action of great men who stand out and tower above their fellows in some spectacular way. Posterity remembers. Men seeking fame reject the static and complacent urge in the human heart to merely be and instead take the strenuous effort to become, to become a person and force in history larger than the ordinary. Such men refuse to be victims of events; they strive to make events, and to never be forgotten by those later generations that will be born into a world his actions helped to shape.
Alexander Hamilton wrote that the desire for reward is “one of the strongest incentives of human conduct.” Anticipation of reward motivates us. The rewards we seek shape our actions. The different ends for which we strive largely shape the means we employ to achieve our ends.
Some will strive for money. Ambition, which is characteristic of a free society, spurs most men to better their condition. The ambition to earn money and provide the good life for oneself and family is upright and decent. Yet, taken to an extreme, too much ambition in the pursuit of money (avarice) is base and destructive.
Unlimited avarice and ambition in presidents can lead to national ruin. As touched upon in an earlier post, The Framers’ President II, all organizations take on the qualities of their leaders. The virus of a corrupt, avaricious president infects the entire administration, as well as the people, as all eventually take part in universal plunder.
The personification of government for profit and raw, vulgar, destructive ambition is Hillary Clinton. Her personal interests and definition of reward stand as polar opposites to the duties of the president to “preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.”
What inspires Donald J. Trump? Wealth? Celebrity? Power? Beautiful women? Certainly all of these motivated him in the past. But having achieved these goals, just what persuaded a seventy year old to take on the rigors of the Presidency? The big clue is within his goal to “Make America great again.” The man who makes America great again can count on the eternal gratitude of history. This is fame.
Clearly, the best security for fidelity to any enterprise is to make a man’s interest coincide with his duty. If shallow ambition was his quest, DJT would have grubbed campaign funds from the usual RNC special interests. A man dedicated to making America great again who avoids the usual special interest snares actually CAN make his interest coincide with his duty to “preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.” His appears to be a noble and patriotic quest. If, through his leadership, he can pull this off, if he can lead the reversal of vicious progressivism and set our nation on the path toward first principles, he will have the eternal gratitude of history and will have achieved FAME.
Fame defeats the threat of oblivion. Fame is secular immortality. This, I believe, is DJT’s quest.
Right article, wrong person. Substitute Hillary in for DJT.
Trump already had fame and accomplishments. I think almost everyone is driven to achieve more, so its not really a trait exclusive to Trump.
Trump did not have to do this.
He did it because he loves America and the American people.
All human beings are flawed.
The Left ignores their own flaws and puts the flaws of their political enemies under a microscope.
And they own the media and all agencies of the US feral government.
How refreshing this essay is. It gets down to the enduring qualities that make Donald Trump the leader of our great Movement to return our nation to its First Principles.
In some ways, Trump’s a Founding Father in a time warp from the 18th century. And yet he’s also a thoroughly 21st century man whose character and mind have been cultivated by decades of high achievement as a builder, organizer, author, actor, and teacher in the world of business.
The challenge of our time is to educate fellow citizens on Trump’s valiant quest to Make America Great Again. And thereby bring true brotherhood, and sanity back to America society to benefit all races and creeds.
And like Jesus in the Temple, Trump realizes one of the first jobs is to throw out the money-changers who have corrupted our government at the highest levels.
Donald Trump is The Echo of our Framers Uncorrupted President.
Most of us are human. We are sinners and sin way too often. We also have moments of good deed. Some more so than others.
There are differences. There are some who lie because they don’t want to hurt somebody’s sensitivities. There are others who blurt out the truth and onlookers are embarrassed because we cover for each other.
Jesus told the story where 2 men were given responsibilty.
One said he would do it but didn’tl
The other did not promise to do it; but did it.
We need to separate both good and bad “talke” from ation.
The quality that separates Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump is their polar-opposite views of leadership:
Clinton has a tyrant’s heart,
while Trump has a servant’s heart.
Great stuff! I feel like I should have read such an analysis many decades ago. It's a highly readable and scholarly story that every FReeper should read. So I am forwarding this to some people.
I note you also posted the story on Free Republic backed in 2016. Donald Trump: The Echo of Our Framers' Uncorrupted President.
What the “two-party” system did to our presidential electoral system is beyond a shame. We were never supposed to endure the likes of Obama or Biden.
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