{"id":1625,"date":"2023-02-14T09:35:18","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T09:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/02\/14\/every-generation-faces-a-barbarian-threat-in-its-own-children\/"},"modified":"2023-02-14T09:35:18","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T09:35:18","slug":"every-generation-faces-a-barbarian-threat-in-its-own-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/02\/14\/every-generation-faces-a-barbarian-threat-in-its-own-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Generation Faces a Barbarian Threat in its Own Children"},"content":{"rendered":"

Top<\/a> o' the Stack.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Related<\/em>: Our Little Barbarians<\/a>. Excerpts:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Recently, an establishment called Nettie's House of Spaghetti in New Jersey announced they will no longer allow children under 10 to dine at their restaurant.<\/span><\/p>\n

The move caused controversy, with some respondents applauding the policy and others accusing Nettie\u2019s staff of being \u201cchild haters.\u201d But the top commenter at MSN.com summed the issue up succinctly:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe don't hate your kids,\u201d she wrote<\/a>. \u201cWe hate your parenting.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

[. . .]<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cOnly a virtuous people are capable of freedom,\u201d Benjamin Franklin observed. \u201cAs nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.\u201d Failing to recognize this truth is deadly. President Ronald Reagan once warned that \u201c[f]reedom is never more than one generation away from extinction\u201d; focusing on freedom, however, as so many today do exclusively, is to put the cart before the horse. For Reagan\u2019s statement is only true insofar as virtue is never more than one generation away from extinction.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Ancient Greek philosopher Plato spoke about this when saying that a child should ideally be raised in an atmosphere of nobility and grace (i.e., our modern culture\u2019s antithesis) so that he can develop an \u201cerotic\u201d \u2014 as in emotional, not sexual \u2014 attachment to virtue. Once accomplished, he\u2019ll be more likely to accept the dictates of reason upon reaching the age of reason.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Would it kill the writer to insert a parenthetical reference to the passage in Plato where the philosopher makes the claim attributed to him?  More importantly, 'erotic' in a Platonic context, while it does not mean sexual, is not well glossed as 'emotional.' 'Aspirational' would be much better. Eros<\/em> is the love of the lower for the higher, the love by one who lacks for that which he lacks. Socrates' love of wisdom is erotic or rather 'erothetic': God's love of Socrates is agape<\/em>, the love of the higher for the lower, a love predicated on fullness.  The love of friends who are equals is philia<\/em>.  Each of these three different forms of love is different from sexual love, if you want to call sex love.<\/span><\/p>\n

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So take heed, because the brats running around in restaurants today will be running, and ruining, the country tomorrow \u2014 and those who\u2019ve not mastered themselves will be mastered by tyrants.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The truth of the first independent clause is exemplified by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. That this narcissistic tweeting twit, this know-nothing, this overgrown teenage girl can be elected (twice) to  the Congress of the greatest nation that has ever existed presages the soon-to-occur fall of said nation.  I predict that it will occur before the Earth is rendered uninhabitable by 'climate change' including the "boiling oceans" Al Gore warned us about recently at Davos, Switzerland, a country with enforced borders.<\/span><\/p>\n

"But she was elected by the people!" True, assuming no electoral 'irregularities' (to put it euphemistically); but a democracy in which the people lack the virtue to vote wisely is no better than a monarchy  and in many cases far worse. <\/span><\/p>\n

Here<\/a> you will find the latest moronic outburst by the tweeting twit.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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