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 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/