“The first 18 years of my life, Holland fed me, schooled me, raised me.”
…..
“I resented Holland.
For years it was me vs them.”
Brilliant stuff, very moving.
@robkhenderson "...until some popular general, who understands the art of conciliating the soldiery... shall draw the eyes of all men upon him."
"It is not France extending a foreign empire over other nations: it is a sect aiming at universal empire, and beginning with the conquest of France."
@robkhenderson "...until some popular general, who understands the art of conciliating the soldiery... shall draw the eyes of all men upon him."
"It is not France extending a foreign empire over other nations: it is a sect aiming at universal empire, and beginning with the conquest of France."
@robkhenderson "...until some popular general, who understands the art of conciliating the soldiery... shall draw the eyes of all men upon him."
"It is not France extending a foreign empire over other nations: it is a sect aiming at universal empire, and beginning with the conquest of France."
@CanadianPM But in the political realm values precede policy. Not all cultures have the same values, not all values are equal. Bad ideas grow in places where you have cultures with worse values. I prefer Canadian values over the “mosaic” that’s replacing them. You should stop this.
@pgeerkens@FromKulak@infantrydort And what unites people when violence is just? Material interests? Are mercenaries reliable? What gives you the technological edge? It’s vacuous to say “violence as the only essential virtue” when the effectiveness of that violence is dependent on other virtues
@pgeerkens@FromKulak@infantrydort Christs revolution wasn’t one where he conquered others at the tip of a sword, he set the example of persuading others through love, speech and demonstration. It was his non violence and his ideas that made him exceptional, if he had traded that he’d be another forgotten warlord.
During the scene where he has drugs a judge and lectures him before killing him, he says that society is going to hell with all the crazed rapists and murderers, order is breaking down, etc. and then says people are sheep who always obey the law and demonstrates this by swerving into the opposing lane and causing a random motorist to crash to their death. He then says something like "That motorist could have driven around me but instead obeyed the law and stayed in their lane, and that's why their now dead." This type of inconsistent thinking (people are lawless animals and people are also law-abiding sheep) is characteristic of a certain kind of mid-IQ rightoid; the movie nailed that part.
I get my oil changed at one of those Valvoline quick places and the dudes are all super cool but I can tell they don’t respect me because I don’t change my own oil.
And I get it.
@neokodosian@pmarca Again, the idea that monarchy isn't the best form of government didn't materialize from the ether, it was built on a tapestry of work from Englishmen (and other western philosophers) who often continued living under monarchy their whole lives and who often defended its merits.
There is no great book that did not begin without the author being alarmed by what was happening around him and wanting to change or reform his world. The idea that you can understand Aquinas in his full richness for example, without understanding the 3rd Lateran Council or the history of Aristotle’ reception is an impoverishment of understanding, not an enhancement.