Dear Charles:

An interesting quotation, but, if you recall your
"Jefferson And/Or Mussolini" Pound also referred to
Nietzsche as an "ill-balanced hyserical teuto-pollak."
Take it for what you will.

Best,

Emmett


--- charles moyer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear Tom and All,
>     May I add two quotations to this present fray of
> political reality vs.
> political theory to which Old Ez could add buckets
> full?
>     First, from Nietzsche, that German/Polish thorn
> in the side of Leo
> Strauss and his sheepishly grinning band of
> neo-Jacobin "intellectuals" now
> riding the wake soon to reach their own I hope-
>
> "The state is a clever institution for protecting
> individuals from one
> another; if one goes too far in ennobling it, the
> individual is ultimately
> weakened by it, even dissolved - and thus the
> original purpose of the state
> is most thoroughly thwarted."
>
>     I have thought of how this might look printed on
> a sign and held up in
> one of those "free speech zones" located far from
> the selected route to the
> community College or the presidentially graced
> kindergarten du jour but
> decided that it would be "thoroughly thwarted". Come
> to think of it maybe
> that's all it should say!
>     My second selection is from our own homegrown
> boy, Tommy Paine, and it
> is the best and most succinct summary of U.S.
> foreign policy, past, present,
> and future, that I have read to date-
>
> "It is with a pious fraud as with a bad action; it
> begets a calamitous
> necessity of going on."
>
> This policy of course adapts to both embedded
> parties, both pious and bad,
> whose rhetoric has dumbdowned to such lows as to
> "stay and finish the job"
> in which case I would willingly vote for an
> undertaker if one were running.
>
> Charles (thoroughly thwarted) Moyer
>
>
> ----------
> >From: Tom White <[log in to unmask]>
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: Wrath aroused
> >Date: Wed, Jan 21, 2004, 7:40 PM
> >
>
> > Dear All:
> > I see I have triggered some unhappiness with my
> post that implied support
> > for anti-govt. libertarian ideas. I had been
> staying off the list to save
> > breath and energy, and have to return to my
> silent-mouse trip forthwith, but
> > in all fairness to my critics let me quote Mencken
> to his critics (not that
> > I would elevate myself to his status): 'Dear Sir
> (or Madam): You may be
> > right." And one last word: If you like what we've
> got going now, by all
> > means hang in there with the "supporters of the
> present system." It's a
> > great deal healthier than any other posture. Tom
> (silent) White

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