Friday, April 17, 2009: The concept that Greece brought us Liberty and Rome brought us order is a valid one. However, Liberty has always depended upon order. Liberty is Freedom in the personal context in both the economic and political forms. Without order, a political and economic structure in which to exercise Liberty is impossible.
Order, by definition, depends upon the Rule of Law. Order without Law would not be order but the whim of the powerful. The Rule of Law, however, IS NOT independent of human agency. It is human will which must bring forth and create the Law justly and human will that must enforce it. When this willingness to stand for, judge, and enforce the Law subsides, as I believe it is today, "the Rule of Law" becomes a phrase that the cowardly cower under.
Humans must make, judge, and enforce the Law; this is the first and necessary act of civilization. It takes a profound self-awareness, self-confidence and COURAGE to come forth and begin this process. When the Rule of Law is established it pounds chaos into order. That order allows Liberty to grow both political and economically. From these two branches spring forth countless types of societies and economies.
Law and Order are the prerequisite for Civilization.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
from my jornal (IV)
Tuesday, April 21, 2009: It is interesting how animals, especially cats, are so fascinated by human beings. They are particularly interested and curious about the human hand and fingers. They seem to recognize a certain dignity in Man as a species and as individuals that we don't often recognize in ourselves. The human mind is the most complex object ever discovered in the Universe.
It is a shame we cannot often recognize or grasp the divinity within us.
It is a shame we cannot often recognize or grasp the divinity within us.
from my journal (III)
Thursday, November 13, 2008: Today is my 36th birthday. It always provides me with a great deal of melancholy as I have never accomplished anything in life of significance or even minor import. I am now closer to 40 than 30 and most certainly closer to death than birth.
from my Journal (II)
Sunday, March 29, 2009: The chairman of GM has been forced to resign by the executive branch of the federal government. What authority this branch has to do this legally is unclear.
It seems that the whole notion of authority, both of its power and its majesty, has been undermined by those whose job it is to wield it. In the first sense it has been diminished by the profligacy and inconstancy of its use. In the second sense it has been reduced by that very profligacy and by an increased meanness and baseness in the People of this country. The profligacy and increasingly rude manners of the People feed on one another.
The restoration of self-government in the political sense can only be restored by a return to self-governance by individuals regarding their own habits, lives and souls. Barring such a restoration it is clear that American Liberty will necessarily cease. Let us pray the cessation will be slow so that we will have time to arrest it.
The first step is to recognize these problems in order to solve them.
It seems that the whole notion of authority, both of its power and its majesty, has been undermined by those whose job it is to wield it. In the first sense it has been diminished by the profligacy and inconstancy of its use. In the second sense it has been reduced by that very profligacy and by an increased meanness and baseness in the People of this country. The profligacy and increasingly rude manners of the People feed on one another.
The restoration of self-government in the political sense can only be restored by a return to self-governance by individuals regarding their own habits, lives and souls. Barring such a restoration it is clear that American Liberty will necessarily cease. Let us pray the cessation will be slow so that we will have time to arrest it.
The first step is to recognize these problems in order to solve them.
from my journal
Tuesday, April 14, 2009: We are living in an age of growing barbarism. Not the caricature of uneducated half-brutes crossing the Rhine, but a barbarization of the elites through lethargy of mind.
In their origin farms and towns went together, complimenting each other. This was the origin of the city-state. The "barbarians" were the plunderers of this civilization who thought they could pillage, rape and plunder with abandon having no conception of what right they had to destroy what they had no part in creating. They were intelligent in the arts of war and lazy and slothful in the arts of peace, civilization and law. Ultimately civilization and its advantages tamed the barbarians.
However, barbarism lives in embryo within every civilization: the idea that force and physical power transcend rights and laws. In the words of the modern poly sci professor: :"politics is about POWER!!" The lazy of mind can live within civilization but they seethe and dream of its destruction. These are the Utopians and their ideas so prevalent in today's culture. I know of whom I speak because I am one of these barbarians. Most of these new barbarians are of a certain intellectual elite but not geniuses. They are generally one or two steps below that. They are brilliant but lack creativity and ethical standards that would serve to harness their thought to beauty and right conduct. In their blindness they desire destruction in order that they will gain from this the energy that they lack to build the world they dream of.
What we, the barbarians, cannot conceive is that in our zeal to "change the world" we forget that the world is filled with others, different from ourselves, who will not consent to their worlds being changed. This is why Utopian ideas breed strife and war. They run into the reality of the diversification of human thought and culture that civilization itself has fostered. This is the source of the our hatred of civilization. We dream of a unified Mankind under our tutelage. Civilization diversifies Man and leads to multiple differences that manifest themselves in multiple civilizations.
"One world, no borders" is possible only by the reduction of Man into a barbarous, atavistic, atomistic mass ready to be harnessed to the yoke of despotic tyranny.
In their origin farms and towns went together, complimenting each other. This was the origin of the city-state. The "barbarians" were the plunderers of this civilization who thought they could pillage, rape and plunder with abandon having no conception of what right they had to destroy what they had no part in creating. They were intelligent in the arts of war and lazy and slothful in the arts of peace, civilization and law. Ultimately civilization and its advantages tamed the barbarians.
However, barbarism lives in embryo within every civilization: the idea that force and physical power transcend rights and laws. In the words of the modern poly sci professor: :"politics is about POWER!!" The lazy of mind can live within civilization but they seethe and dream of its destruction. These are the Utopians and their ideas so prevalent in today's culture. I know of whom I speak because I am one of these barbarians. Most of these new barbarians are of a certain intellectual elite but not geniuses. They are generally one or two steps below that. They are brilliant but lack creativity and ethical standards that would serve to harness their thought to beauty and right conduct. In their blindness they desire destruction in order that they will gain from this the energy that they lack to build the world they dream of.
What we, the barbarians, cannot conceive is that in our zeal to "change the world" we forget that the world is filled with others, different from ourselves, who will not consent to their worlds being changed. This is why Utopian ideas breed strife and war. They run into the reality of the diversification of human thought and culture that civilization itself has fostered. This is the source of the our hatred of civilization. We dream of a unified Mankind under our tutelage. Civilization diversifies Man and leads to multiple differences that manifest themselves in multiple civilizations.
"One world, no borders" is possible only by the reduction of Man into a barbarous, atavistic, atomistic mass ready to be harnessed to the yoke of despotic tyranny.
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