Quoting the old man again: “..he who would foresee what has to be, should reflect on what has been, for everything that happens in the world at any time has a genuine resemblance to what happened in ancient times…” – Machiavelli, in his Discourses In other words, history matters. More than you could possibly imagine. […]
History
Of ugly truths, oppression, privilege, and doctrine – 2
So now, where were we? Collective Blood guilt. It exists, to a degree. Of course it is nuanced. After all, whose grandfather hasn’t oppressed another’ grandfather, whose great-granduncle hasn’t cuckolded another’s, whose great-great-grandmother hasn’t stolen from another’s, and so on. How many Armenian civilians were killed by Turks? But so too, how many thousands of […]
Of ugly truths, oppression, privilege, and doctrine – 1
On Ugly truths and Pretty Lies. I oppose the very notion of an ugly truth. Why? Because truth is never ugly, only when we look at it from a limited perspective it can appear ugly. “Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies…” Lies can taste sweet, but they are only pretty from a superficial […]
Redux on the Club of Rome [Edited]
Some folks out there were, a wee bit, curious about the quote I posted from the Club of Rome’s Alexander King &co., and wanted to know more about the book I cited it from, and about Club itself. So here you go. As for the book, the quotation came from “The First Global Revolution” – […]