Category: Power
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Sun Tzu: 21 Principles of the Art of War
Under 15 minutes. May help in the understanding of DJT's modus operandi et dominandi.
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The Mighty Tetrad
Money, power, sex, and recognition form the Mighty Tetrad of human motivators, the chief goads to action here below. But none of the four is evil or the root of all evil. People thoughtlessly and falsely repeat, time and again, that money is the root of all evil. Why not say that about power, sex,…
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Plato, Power, and Existence
The return of the Eleatic Stranger. Substack latest. Theme music: Barbara Lewis, Hello Stranger EmmyLou Harris, Hello Stranger
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Occasionalism, Omnipotence, and Matthew 23:9
"Secondary causes are mere occasional causes, occasions of the exercise of the causality of the only true productive cause, God." And call no man your father upon earth, for One is your Father, who is in Heaven. (Matthew, 23:9) Posted by: Simon Neale | Sunday, February 18, 2024 at 03:21 PM Before we can evaluate Mr. Neale's…
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What is Potentiality?
Substack latest. An exploration of a much-misunderstood notion.
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Kierkegaard on the Impotence of Earthly Power
Substack latest.
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Is the Left Out for Power Alone?
Tucker Carlson and many other conservatives say that the Left is out for power alone, but it is not true. I grant, of course, that leftists love power and will do anything to gain it and maintain it. But why do they want it? Not for the sake of power alone, but to implement their…
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Servility Will Cower to Force
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America: For my part, I am persuaded that in all governments, whatever their nature may be, servility will cower to force, and adulation will follow power. The only means to prevent men from degrading themselves is to invest no one with that unlimited authority which is the sure method of…
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Beware the Ides of March, Vladimir
"They are come, but not yet gone." Thus spoke the soothsayer to Julius Caesar when the dictator perpetuus said to the soothsayer that the Ides of March had come and he was still alive. Dictator perpetuus has an overly confident ring to it much like eintausendjähriges Reich. Some history here. The Death of Caesar (1798) by Vincenzo Camuccini
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Truth and Power
'Speaking truth to power' is a phrase leftists love when they are out of power; in power, they exercise it, and truth be damned. They imbibed mendacity with their mothers' milk.
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The Mighty Tetrad: Money, Power, Sex, and Recognition
Money, power, sex, and recognition form the Mighty Tetrad of human motivators, the chief goads to action here below. But none of the four is evil or the root of all evil. People thoughtlessly and falsely repeat, time and again, that money is the root of all evil. Why not say that about power, sex,…
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Speaking Truth to Power
When a leftist speaks truth to power, it is not out of respect for truth, but out of respect for the power that he hopes to achieve by using truth-telling as a means to his end.
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Dura lex, sed lex
"The law is hard, but the law is the law." Not to a leftist, however, for whom the law is but an expression of power. Power knows no moral constraint.
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Hospitals and Torture Chambers
We are strangely, insanely, conflicted. We care lovingly, or at least dutifully, for the sick, the injured, and the dying. But we also torture people to death in ways that inspire envy in demons. The belief that humans are inherently good is one of the deepest of human delusions. Paradoxically, those who succumb to it…
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Kierkegaard on the Power and the Powerlessness of Earthly Power
The following passage from Concluding Unscientific Postscript embodies a penetrating insight: . . . the legal authority shows its impotence precisely when it shows its power: its power by giving permission, its impotence by not being able to make it permissible. (p. 460, tr. Swenson & Lowrie) My permitting you to do X does not…