Showing posts with label Socrates. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Socrates. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Abraham Lincoln was no Socrates, pretending that a man can be neither slave nor master

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 "As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy." If a man is not a master of himself...
Thursday, June 15, 2023

Congress went on a spending orgy since 2019 adding $8.77 trillion to the national debt and dimwits blame the Fed for being unable to control inflation

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 Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon. Blame yourselves. You elected them.   The chief penalty is to be governed by some...
Tuesday, July 14, 2020

Trump as tyrant in the classical sense

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This brief excerpt from an essay which is otherwise an exercise in hysteria is quite accurate: 'Trump is rather a tyrant in the cl...
Friday, January 16, 2015

Victor Davis Hanson's loyalty is to a part of antiquity about free speech admired by the Enlightenment, not to all of it

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Here , idealizing the record of the ancient world on freedom of speech, which is much more complicated than he lets on: Western civili...
Friday, June 20, 2014

Robert Kaplan either steals from Plato, or is simply ignorant of him

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Here  in "The Loneliness of the Tyrant", where he discourses at length on the psychological predicament of many strongmen past and...
Thursday, April 18, 2013

Plato's Gold/Silver Ratio was 12, Founding Fathers' 15. At this hour it is 59.7!

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Socrates Now answer this further question: you say that if one acquires more than the amount one has spent, it is gain? Friend I do not mean...
Thursday, October 18, 2012

A State Run By A Tyrant Is Beset With Fear And Full Of Convulsions And Distractions

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"[A]ll his life long he is beset with fear and is full of convulsions, and distractions, even as the State which he resembles." --...
Friday, July 20, 2012

Not Only Should The Young Have No Guns, They Should Have No Movies

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And while we're at it, no one shall vote for president who isn't also at least 35 years of age. ABC News reports here that the gunm...
Friday, December 2, 2011

The Feeble-Minded, Libertarian Crank, Rep. Justin Amash Can't Encourage "In God We Trust"

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The text of the bill he voted against reads as follows : Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That Congress rea...
Monday, March 14, 2011

Obama: If Only I Were President of China

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So the president has let it slip that it would be so much easier to be the president of China. To Michael Goodwin for The New York Post, her...
Monday, February 28, 2011

Spreading the Misery Around

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Moreover, as we were saying before, [the tyrant] grows worse from having power: he becomes and is of necessity more jealous, more faithless,...