In the spirit of nothing new under the sun, The Great Reset looks a lot like a technocratic recycling of Feudalism with an added side order of elements of Communism.
Weak men -> hard times -> strong men -> good times -> weak men.
80 years. 80 years is how long it takes for the price of freedom and quality of life to fall out of living memory. That cartoon is coming up on 80 years old. Which means we might be coming up on remembering the price, and hopefully ponying up to make good on the purchase.
Reminds me of Robinson Jeffers poem, “Be Angry At The Sun”, written early 1940’s I believe. But even well before that, the Old Testament book Ecclesiastes, written maybe 3500 years ago.
Ecclesiastes 1:9
What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.
10 Is there anything of which one can say,
“Look! This is something new”?
It was here already, long ago;
Corruption, megalomania and power-crazed men are certainly nothing new to history
I have a family member who is a high school history teacher. During the pandemic she and I would have multiple conversations or shall I say arguments. I would tell her over and over that it was all political this is not how we’ve ever practiced medicine before. At one point she said to me that she cannot imagine that her government would be doing this. And that’s when I’m like…you’re actually a history teacher?
OMG you kill me. Such a good morning read, thank you. Great memes again.
somewhere on the wall of an ancient pharaonic necropolis are likely hieroglyphs to the effect of “built for king boomerses by generation 𓅂 who could not afford a house because their parents used up all the stones!”
I remember my great amusement, reading about those Athenians kvetching about those "damned kids today." But now I and my friend from fifth grade talk on the phone weekly, kvetching about "these..." and I keep saying "how did we get here?"
Anyway, well done. This sort of heartening is more than welcome in the midst of the horrors.
One of the great truths that dawned on me as a young engineer, which I expressed as a question, was this. "Has it ever dawned on you that some of the most brilliant thinkers of our time and most universally accepted truths of our age will one day be relegated to the categorizations of ‘ignorant’ or ‘bogus’ by people of some distant future?" It is common to think "this is the first time" or whatever. Frankly, there was far too much of that during this covid dumpster fire. Somebody mentioned that history tends to repeat if we don't remember it. Wise words indeed! (Also, that cartoon was scary in its prescience!)
How to get the state mead drinkers to yearn for freedom...
Also - Ecclesiastes 1. It is worth a read. Solomon (the most wise among men) at the end of his life observed that all things of the world (of men), all is vanity and it is hollow and there is nothing new that man makes. Even "good" things. The world is irretrievably broken and empty and unsatisfying. So he returns to the font of living waters. The incorruptible. The source of all that is good and perfect. God. Nothing will be made right until His son returns. The ultimate, perfect, great reset.
If you are curious about Christ and don't know where to start, IMO the book of John is my pick. The promises we have in Christ push out fear. That is what we really need.
1) I'm dumbfounded by that cartoon. Yes, we do ourselves no favors by considering those of the past to be less astute,capable, or cogent.
2) Im Continually aghast at the history I was never shown... And I Love history!!
3) if we ever need a speech writer,we have only to look to el gato malo, because he knows both how to stir the indolent feline in us,and calm hackles... please never stop.
I may be showing my cards a bit here, but: philosophy was complete with the book of Ecclesiastes. Everything past that is just an attempt to pretend that humans have actually come up with something new.
In the spirit of nothing new under the sun, The Great Reset looks a lot like a technocratic recycling of Feudalism with an added side order of elements of Communism.
Weak men -> hard times -> strong men -> good times -> weak men.
80 years. 80 years is how long it takes for the price of freedom and quality of life to fall out of living memory. That cartoon is coming up on 80 years old. Which means we might be coming up on remembering the price, and hopefully ponying up to make good on the purchase.
Reminds me of Robinson Jeffers poem, “Be Angry At The Sun”, written early 1940’s I believe. But even well before that, the Old Testament book Ecclesiastes, written maybe 3500 years ago.
Ecclesiastes 1:9
What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.
10 Is there anything of which one can say,
“Look! This is something new”?
It was here already, long ago;
Corruption, megalomania and power-crazed men are certainly nothing new to history
I have a family member who is a high school history teacher. During the pandemic she and I would have multiple conversations or shall I say arguments. I would tell her over and over that it was all political this is not how we’ve ever practiced medicine before. At one point she said to me that she cannot imagine that her government would be doing this. And that’s when I’m like…you’re actually a history teacher?
I often get the feeling I am living in a mental institution.
This planet is filled with some brilliant criminals, and plenty of stupid stupid people.
Most of us, just sort of, find that soft spot, make biscuits, purr, settle in and watch.
OMG you kill me. Such a good morning read, thank you. Great memes again.
somewhere on the wall of an ancient pharaonic necropolis are likely hieroglyphs to the effect of “built for king boomerses by generation 𓅂 who could not afford a house because their parents used up all the stones!”
The full passage >
A generation goes, and a generation comes,
but the earth remains forever.
The sun rises, and the sun goes down,
and hastens to the place where it rises.
The wind blows to the south
and goes around to the north;
around and around goes the wind,
and on its circuits the wind returns.
All streams run to the sea,
but the sea is not full;
to the place where the streams flow,
there they flow again.
All things are full of weariness;
a man cannot utter it;
the eye is not satisfied with seeing,
nor the ear filled with hearing.
What has been is what will be,
and what has been done is what will be done,
and there is nothing new under the sun.
Axiom: Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.
Corollary: Those who do know history are doomed to repeat it, anyway.
I remember my great amusement, reading about those Athenians kvetching about those "damned kids today." But now I and my friend from fifth grade talk on the phone weekly, kvetching about "these..." and I keep saying "how did we get here?"
Anyway, well done. This sort of heartening is more than welcome in the midst of the horrors.
One of the great truths that dawned on me as a young engineer, which I expressed as a question, was this. "Has it ever dawned on you that some of the most brilliant thinkers of our time and most universally accepted truths of our age will one day be relegated to the categorizations of ‘ignorant’ or ‘bogus’ by people of some distant future?" It is common to think "this is the first time" or whatever. Frankly, there was far too much of that during this covid dumpster fire. Somebody mentioned that history tends to repeat if we don't remember it. Wise words indeed! (Also, that cartoon was scary in its prescience!)
How to get the state mead drinkers to yearn for freedom...
Also - Ecclesiastes 1. It is worth a read. Solomon (the most wise among men) at the end of his life observed that all things of the world (of men), all is vanity and it is hollow and there is nothing new that man makes. Even "good" things. The world is irretrievably broken and empty and unsatisfying. So he returns to the font of living waters. The incorruptible. The source of all that is good and perfect. God. Nothing will be made right until His son returns. The ultimate, perfect, great reset.
If you are curious about Christ and don't know where to start, IMO the book of John is my pick. The promises we have in Christ push out fear. That is what we really need.
1) I'm dumbfounded by that cartoon. Yes, we do ourselves no favors by considering those of the past to be less astute,capable, or cogent.
2) Im Continually aghast at the history I was never shown... And I Love history!!
3) if we ever need a speech writer,we have only to look to el gato malo, because he knows both how to stir the indolent feline in us,and calm hackles... please never stop.
Used to teach a historical overview of Yoga. Part of that ancient lineage/ traditions embrace a concept called
“ spanda”. Expansion / contraction of the universe. All comes. And goes in waves.
Lather, rinse , repeat and choose wisely.
I may be showing my cards a bit here, but: philosophy was complete with the book of Ecclesiastes. Everything past that is just an attempt to pretend that humans have actually come up with something new.
My gato writes beautifully and shares wisdom like a mama cat…so nice…purring…..
Wow, just wow...this post put's the Bad Cat in a league with Dr. Thomas Sowell and Dr. Walter E. Williams.