Thursday, May 8, 2008

The Seat of Power

Every chair must have at least 3 legs and a seat:

  3 legs:

     1 – Nationalism
     2 – Culture
     3 – Religion/Philosophy

  The seat: Pride

The legs must be of equal length for balance; but the seat can be as thin as an autonomous region or as thick as a superpower straddling the globe.

For true stability the chair needs four legs. The fourth leg is science. The science of the state. #3 is Plato’s great contribution to the modern state.

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Where is Augustine's "City on the Hill" and who lives there?
And perhaps more importantly: How do they live - with each other?

不知彼,不知己,每戰必殆 (孫子)

(If you don't know yourself and if you don't know your enemy,
then you are in for a world of hurt!)


γνῶθι σεαυτόν (Δελφοί)

“I couldn’t imagine this ... world.
Hell is so big and dark and heaven is so small." HJM

"the U.S. has a little manifest destiny over here,
and a little more manifest destiny over there..."

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How About a Bill of Responsibilities Rather Than A Bill of Rights

What if we chose the wrong religion?
Each week we'd just make God madder and madder.