You put so nicely the common humanity we share, yet scarcely recognize in our elected officials and disconnect that has grown since the founding of our nation between those who took care in their responsibility with serving the public and those now entitled with defiling the republic for their own avarice.
I spent a lot of time in the boy scouts. I was very sad when the scouts was revealed to have had so many problems. I see so much of our problems as being a side effect of men not being able to socialize properly with other men. the scouts was a place were boys could learn to build community with other men. One could learn to have a genuine appreciation for others abilities and unique personalities. One could measure oneself up against others. You realized that there were some boys that were better at certain things than you were, smarter, more athletic, whatever... and that was OK. You also learned that you didnt always have things in common and didnt always agree on things. You learned to have respect and appreciation for these differences and still get along. You learned to have some humility and see others as human beings no matter how different you were. Thomas Jefferson thought that the "natural aristocracy" should rule. By this he meant that those with talent; he didnt mean a hereditary elite. He thought the talent could be found in any class. The "elite" owe their status to the ethical and legal milieu, to the cultural tradition in which they have been raised. Those elevated to positions of authority wealth and power are able to achieve these positions b/c of the meritocratic tradition of our culture. For these people to behave the way they have been ; as malignant sociopaths is a profound betrayal. A wounding of our society's spirit. Its taken centuries to climb up the hill to the shining city ( as Regan put it) These people are blowing it up in a few decades. Hopefully we good citizens... the GC tribe... I hate to call it an "army" ; too militant... hopefully we will be like the Irish monks in the middle ages. We will preserve the sacred Rothbardian and classical liberal texts in our obscure corners of the dark web for when the world is ready to embrace freedom again.
This is so completely devastating for Harris, because everyone knows it's true.
You put so nicely the common humanity we share, yet scarcely recognize in our elected officials and disconnect that has grown since the founding of our nation between those who took care in their responsibility with serving the public and those now entitled with defiling the republic for their own avarice.
I spent a lot of time in the boy scouts. I was very sad when the scouts was revealed to have had so many problems. I see so much of our problems as being a side effect of men not being able to socialize properly with other men. the scouts was a place were boys could learn to build community with other men. One could learn to have a genuine appreciation for others abilities and unique personalities. One could measure oneself up against others. You realized that there were some boys that were better at certain things than you were, smarter, more athletic, whatever... and that was OK. You also learned that you didnt always have things in common and didnt always agree on things. You learned to have respect and appreciation for these differences and still get along. You learned to have some humility and see others as human beings no matter how different you were. Thomas Jefferson thought that the "natural aristocracy" should rule. By this he meant that those with talent; he didnt mean a hereditary elite. He thought the talent could be found in any class. The "elite" owe their status to the ethical and legal milieu, to the cultural tradition in which they have been raised. Those elevated to positions of authority wealth and power are able to achieve these positions b/c of the meritocratic tradition of our culture. For these people to behave the way they have been ; as malignant sociopaths is a profound betrayal. A wounding of our society's spirit. Its taken centuries to climb up the hill to the shining city ( as Regan put it) These people are blowing it up in a few decades. Hopefully we good citizens... the GC tribe... I hate to call it an "army" ; too militant... hopefully we will be like the Irish monks in the middle ages. We will preserve the sacred Rothbardian and classical liberal texts in our obscure corners of the dark web for when the world is ready to embrace freedom again.