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.
This blog has evolved from a compilation of my comments in continuing discourses elsewhere
- if you are serious about philosophy and its current affect on you and society at large, check it out.
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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)
Hell is so big and dark and heaven is so small." HJM
and a little more manifest destiny over there..."
How About a Bill of Responsibilities Rather Than A Bill of Rights
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