Mankind has got to know its limitations, but from the Tower of Babel to Soviet Union to Woke America, too many men have attempted to build a heaven on earth that turns out to resemble Hell.
Another fascinating thing about watching a child grow is the gestation of his powers of attention. I do not say “evolution,” though attention is a kind of faculty which is by nature progressive, because I find both evolution and progress conceptually suspect.
Nonetheless…if there is one thing we Americans take seriously, it is money But even on that most vital subject, we cannot bring ourselves to tell the truth.
As I sat at the café, I said to myself,
They may talk as they please about what they call pelf,
Ghettos are made by people of heavily criminalized low cultures destroying their environment, which in turn raises more criminals.
Until Trump came along, WaPo columnist Jennifer Rubin called herself a conservative and a Republican. She really was just a chickenhawk warmonger; and back then the GOP was backing the wars more than the DemLeftParty.
The other week, under the pretext of our daily stroll through town, Vasily and I betook ourselves to a terrace bar where I could have a glass of Ricard’s “Pastis de Marseille” accompanied by a cigar and he could have his bare feet tickled by the barmaid.
In his recent addresses, President Biden has attacked his Republican opposition as “semi-fascist,” meaning just fascist. But who’s the real fascist? Here’s the definition of Mussolini, the first fascist dictator: “All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.”
Men and women have been trying to reason their way into a good life for centuries. Accepting every ideology proposed by the latest crack-brained intellectual, they fall farther and farther away from the moral and political realities required by human nature.
This post is a composite of a series of pieces I did on Sophocles. Religious and skeptical of sophistry, Sophocles was both a profound writer and an Athenian citizen who served his city in war and peace. His works are a warning against intellectual and political arrogance.
