tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31655026.post8024953082222053442..comments2024-03-29T11:00:59.816+00:00Comments on nourishing obscurity: [halls of power] something rotten at the headJames Highamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14525082702330365464noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31655026.post-74283660009968679562009-06-08T10:23:21.267+01:002009-06-08T10:23:21.267+01:00The points you make here are true and have to be f...The points you make here are true and have to be fitted into the perspective somewhere.James Highamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14525082702330365464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31655026.post-37483766261441934932009-06-08T07:43:36.443+01:002009-06-08T07:43:36.443+01:00There is so much rot at the head because there is ...There is so much rot at the head because there is a rot at the heart now. Bad actors did not affect us so greatly when government was limited, and now there are more bad actors as well being drawn to this malestom. Why would anyone else subject himself to it? <br /><br />The only way opinions and ideas can be renewed, hearts enlarged, and human minds developed is through the reciprocal influence of men upon each other--<br />Tocqueville, Democracy in America<br /><br />Tocqueville wrote that he saw this nowhere but in America, and to a lesser extent, in England.<br /><br />We gave it up because it was pried away by ideologies who knew exactly what they were doing, and are relentless. But good people are relentless only in love, not in hate. It's not a good matchup.<br /><br />You do great work. I'm backing up my truck and loading your best furniture. Sorry. I know you'll get more.xlbrlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01931950075332608449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31655026.post-36645547788640282992009-06-07T23:57:19.014+01:002009-06-07T23:57:19.014+01:00Uber, have to agree.Uber, have to agree.James Highamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14525082702330365464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31655026.post-17180798373756859242009-06-07T23:56:47.380+01:002009-06-07T23:56:47.380+01:00This is a powerful argument, Xlbrl and I'm wit...This is a powerful argument, Xlbrl and I'm with you on it but there is also an externalized, sentient rot in the head. The American Founders saw correctly and yet look at how the corrupt govern both from the wings [NAAC] and in the oval office over there.James Highamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14525082702330365464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31655026.post-56064609407589533182009-06-07T19:26:34.928+01:002009-06-07T19:26:34.928+01:00The answer is hidden in your propostition. That &q...The answer is hidden in your propostition. That "even" someone idealistic loses his reason in that culture shows us that idealism within this environment is a compatible fuel for that fire. We are looking at the politicians when we should be looking at ourselves. <br /><br />The American Founders saw clearly that the only way to control the power of government was not to grant it in the first place. "It's a Republic, if you can keep it."<br /><br />The malignant force is not at the top, it is everywhere within us. Socialism is instinctive, the result of collectivism and altruism in our evolution through small groups and tribes. What is also natural in that environmnet is uniformity and the need for a strong leader. <br /><br />Civilization requires the renuncuation of instinct, and builds an extended order through the accumulation of custom and tradition, however imperfect. So it is that in civilization socialism becomes anti-social. Yet instinct never has to be sold, only provoked, and civilization can only be aquired and reinforced. That is why we are losing.<br /><br /> The intellectuals you often describe are artfully dressed primitives, and yet we ask permission to debate with them when they only respect what we have not provided: savagery. This is why they appease Islam. <br /><br />When we are powerless to change something we can only change ourselves. To fight, or to endure, that is the question. Tocqueville saw that the evil that we suffer patiently seems insupportable as soon as we conceive of the idea of escape from it.xlbrlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01931950075332608449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31655026.post-84205643150555441992009-06-07T13:00:17.400+01:002009-06-07T13:00:17.400+01:00What I've noticed in the 'justice' sys...What I've noticed in the 'justice' system is that the closer one gets to the seat of justice, the less justice there is to be found there.UBERMOUTHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15428848028109037855noreply@blogger.com