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Dr. Fleming explains to Rex, Foreign policy, Diplomacy and the fish or cut bait theory
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Dr. Fleming explains to Rex, Foreign policy, Diplomacy and the fish or cut bait theory
Rex Scott
Rex Scott
I could not dig: I dared not rob:
Therefore I lied to please the mob.
Now all my lies are proved untrue
And I must face the men I slew.
What tale shall serve me here among
Mine angry and defrauded young?
Back in action and right over the target! Great podcast.
Source Dom?
Mr. Strenk,
A Dead Statesman from Kipling’s Epitaphs of the War.
Thanks Dom. Time to start reading and re-reading Kipling again. Great quote and very appropriate. There’s nothing new under the sun.
Mr. Strenk,
Very refreshing. Similar, but in a different context, to a hired fist choking down a gorilla.
Dr. Fleming once said something like those who die needlessly, while doing their duty, hopefully did not live in vain (or at least that was my understanding at the time. I’m going off memory.).
This approach is more comforting and keeping with the dignity of the person and should be simple and obvious, but it wasn’t to me. Judging by how often I have heard “died in vain”, I suspect it is not obvious to many. Does that indicate something wrong with society – that we obsess over the death rather than the life? Maybe it is just a natural human tendency to do so.
Either way we are judged by our lives, so maybe our deaths don’t matter much to begin with. Not in a temporal sense, at least, but with the possible exception of condemned criminals. Even laying down one’s life for a friend is a final act of life.
Then there is the practical side: cries of “They shall not have lived in vain!” wouldn’t inspire anyone to throw more lives at a thing.