Posted on 05/07/2010 2:13:19 PM PDT by Noumenon
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I'll stand behind you on those words. An exceptional essay in both principle and execution.
BTTT
Should be mandatory reading in all school systems. I won't hold my breath on that one, though.
Thanks. I’m working on a revised version of it that has the potential for turning into a book. Trying for better flow of ideas and logic. There’s a wealth of material that begs for inclusion. Going to take a while...
I strongly encourage you to do that and I will look forward to it. I believe there is a need and a desire for writing of that nature and caliber.
Outstanding writing and content, Noumenon. Thanks for posting it.
"The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create whatever the form of government, a real despotism. A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position."
George Washington - Farewell Address, September 17, 1796, Ref: George Washington: A Collection, W.B. Allen, ed. (521)"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action."
George Washington - : in a speech of January 7, 1790
Cordially,
bttt
Just finished Fernando’s book. Very, very interesting. We’re not exactly Argentina in a number of cultural particulars, but there was enough there for me to re-think a few things.
Trouble is, anything can happen here. Anything. Too many variables. Too many fault lines. Events can and will take on a life of their own. We have the makings of some serious chaos brewing here. A shattered mirror.
How’d that old Creedence Clearwater song go? “There’s a bad moon on the rise...”
I think it’ll be a LOT worse here than in Argentina. They walked back from the brink, I don’t think we will. They have a basically European, Catholic society. Even with class divisions, more binds them than not. Here, we have the Bosnia problem in many areas: three ethnic groups with a lot of simmering hatred.
"We" are a very diverse population spread across an area much, much larger than Argentina. Our inner city, welfare acustomed population has almost nothing in common with the productive class. And I mean almost nothing including language.
Have either of you ever listened to some of the some of what some people try to pass off as English? I live just the next county over and for the life of me I can't figure out more than about every third word.
How do you think they're going to behave when the system finally breaks down? They're going to come boiling out of those cities with a raging sense of entitlement in their heads and guns in their hands.
And it's not necessarily a racial thing. I have folks of various hues on my block that I would trust at my back any day of the week under almost any circumstances.
Variables? Yep. Wheels within wheels....
All I can do is make sure that me and mine are as prepared as possible with the resources that we've put together with our own hands. God will do what He will and we can't worry about that.
God helps those who help themselves, luck favors the prepared, and fortune favors the bold. That's the way we look at things for better or worse.
I don't see what else we can do.
Good luck to you both.
I think if the power ever goes out for a week and the supply routes are broken to the supermarkets, gas stations and ATMs, our cities will “go bosnia.”
Once they do, it will be hard to recover them. Martial law might stop some aspects of the anarchy, but it won’t put food on the shelves.
I think if the power ever goes out for a week and the supply routes are broken to the supermarkets, gas stations and ATMs, our cities will “go bosnia.”
Once they do, it will be hard to recover them. Martial law might stop some aspects of the anarchy, but it won’t put food on the shelves.
I think if the power ever goes out for a week and the supply routes are broken to the supermarkets, gas stations and ATMs, our cities will “go bosnia.”
Once they do, it will be hard to recover them. Martial law might stop some aspects of the anarchy, but it won’t put food on the shelves.
I think if the power ever goes out for a week and the supply routes are broken to the supermarkets, gas stations and ATMs, our cities will “go bosnia.”
Once they do, it will be hard to recover them. Martial law might stop some aspects of the anarchy, but it won’t put food on the shelves.
I fear that you are correct. I’ll come back to that shattered mirror metaphor. It’ll be any individual or group with an axe to grind. Combined with the savagery borne of desperation - there’ll be no lack of that to go around. The Left has worked for years to dissolve the common bonds of trust and the social contract / glue that had worked to keep this nation together for so long. Now, they have succeeded. Talk about reaping the whirlwind...
That they will. And it won't take long if the one hour meltdown is even remotely accurate. Eve naround here. there's a lot of dead weight in Coeur d'Alene and the surrounding area. There there's Spokane. Folks unprepared and without a clue. A significant number of folks here in northern Idaho depend on that government check.
When it grinds to a halt, even for a few days, they'll be madder than a pack of raccoons that you just stopped feeding.
Great reading.
Monday bump.
BLOAT - and turn that ammuntion into skill.
This is a truly brilliant essay. Thank you for the effort to clarify so much, so well. I encourage you to try to get it published more widely.
Well done!
Thank you for the kind words. I do believe that I’m on to something. This essay is turning into a book, and will cover much more. It is curious to me that so many authors dance around the role that the Will to Power plays in animating history’s worst tyrants and mass murderers.
It is also vital that we recognize and destroy those who seek that same adulterine power. The human race can’t stand much more of this and still call itself human.
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