Posted on 12/11/2024 3:54:58 PM PST by Jacquerie
Fame is the reward for the action of great men who stand out and tower above their fellows in some spectacular way. Posterity remembers. Men seeking fame reject the static and complacent urge in the human heart to merely be and instead take the strenuous effort to become, to become a person and force in history larger than the ordinary. Such men refuse to be victims of events; they strive to make events, and to never be forgotten by those later generations that will be born into a world his actions helped to shape.
Alexander Hamilton wrote that the desire for reward is “one of the strongest incentives of human conduct.” Anticipation of reward motivates us. The rewards we seek shape our actions. The different ends for which we strive largely shape the means we employ to achieve our ends.
Some will strive for money. Ambition, which is characteristic of a free society, spurs most men to better their condition. The ambition to earn money and provide the good life for oneself and family is upright and decent. Yet, taken to an extreme, too much ambition in the pursuit of money (avarice) is base and destructive.
Unlimited avarice and ambition in presidents can lead to national ruin. As touched upon in an earlier post, The Framers’ President II, all organizations take on the qualities of their leaders. The virus of a corrupt, avaricious president infects the entire administration, as well as the people, as all eventually take part in universal plunder.
The personification of government for profit and raw, vulgar, destructive ambition is Hillary Clinton. Her personal interests and definition of reward stand as polar opposites to the duties of the president to “preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.”
What inspires Donald J. Trump? Wealth? Celebrity? Power? Beautiful women? Certainly all of these motivated him in the past. But having achieved these goals, just what persuaded a seventy year old to take on the rigors of the Presidency? The big clue is within his goal to “Make America great again.” The man who makes America great again can count on the eternal gratitude of history. This is fame.
Clearly, the best security for fidelity to any enterprise is to make a man’s interest coincide with his duty. If shallow ambition was his quest, DJT would have grubbed campaign funds from the usual RNC special interests. A man dedicated to making America great again who avoids the usual special interest snares actually CAN make his interest coincide with his duty to “preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.” His appears to be a noble and patriotic quest. If, through his leadership, he can pull this off, if he can lead the reversal of vicious progressivism and set our nation on the path toward first principles, he will have the eternal gratitude of history and will have achieved FAME.
Fame defeats the threat of oblivion. Fame is secular immortality. This, I believe, is DJT’s quest.
My estimate of the man then remains today.
You mean he doesn’t have fame now?
I think this is a misguided representation of the possible motivations of President Trump.
Maybe it is just that he Loves America.
Maybe it isn’t a selfish thing as the author of this article, unknowingly I believe, presents.
“This, I believe, is DJT’s quest.”
What Trump proclaims now — MAGA -— is what he was proclaiming thirty years ago.
But a little effeminate twerp like this idiot can’t understand love of country as a motivating factor.
In common speech we tend to use the words glory, honor, famous and fame as interchangeable terms. They share the common ingredient of praise, and of an independent audience that judges behavior.
Where they differ is as to what that audience is and when the praise is awarded. In the simplest of definitions, glory is associated with God. Honor involves respect from a small group, such as one’s family or fellow professionals in law, sports, writing, broadcasting, etc.
Famous people are typically celebrities who enjoy shallow admiration from a wide group.
That leaves the quality of fame.
Donald Trump looked around from his earliest of times, saw the same circumstances happening over and over, and said to himself, wait a minute!
Then decided to do something about it on a grand scale. Donald Trump’s Quest is standing up against all odds.
Strange article. I can’t decide if the author is complementing Trump or not. As for fame, Trump is my George Washington. While I have 8x10s of actors around the house, I have a YUGGGE portrait of Trump in my library. I want his fame to last forever and am sincerely hoping for a large group of sponsored historians to write positive biographies to pass down the centuries. Can’t imagine he’ll ever take time out of his work to ever write his own autobiography.
It was love for this nation & her citizens, period.
I am in my late 70s. Every so often I go and have a look at all the cover of Time Magazine from the beginning.
To be on the cover of Time you had at minimum be someone important, some one that people would recognized, someone who was “famous” at the time.
I first look at the face to see if I recognize the person, and failing to I read the name. Of all the important people that were on the cover there are few who’s fame lasted.
How will history view President Trump? Will he have a “fame” that last? The next four years will determine that.
His appears to be a noble and patriotic quest.
Mere fame could have been achieved by Trump without going against the Deep State, the dominant media, the character assassinations, the impeachments and the attempts on his life. But Trump chose a different path.
Trump's quest is more than one that "appears" to be noble and patriotic.
Trump's quest IS noble and patriotic.
EARTHLY FAME MEANS. TRUE FAME IS TO BOW LOW BEFORE YESHUA.
EARTHLY FAME MEANS NOTHING.
Idiotic. He is doing this for the right reasons, and not some silly quest to achieve fame. If THAT was his goal, he could have run as a Dem years ago and received unending fame and acclaim in the press, in DC and on the world stage.
Trump’s fame before 2015 was massive.
Since running for president, his fame has been nearly destroyed.
This is excellent AND SO TRUE! Thanks for posting.
“”A man dedicated to making America great again who avoids the usual special interest snares actually CAN make his interest coincide with his duty to “preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.” His appears to be a noble and patriotic quest.””
Misguided? You have a different take on what was actually written...I don’t see selfishness as any part of the article...
The desire to save our country is very different from seeking fame.
Donald Trump is not on a quest for fame. He is already famous and was so even before 2015 when he announced his candidacy for President of our nation.
Trump is on a quest to return America to its glory days of the 70s and 80s, back before the Clinton cabal entered the White House and started selling off our nation and our freedoms to the highest bidder.
The best definition of passive-aggressive is when you want to insult someone but you know it won’t be socially acceptable, so you put lipstick on it thinking it gives you plausible deniability.
The left simply can’t understand someone doing something for purely altruistic reasons as it lies well outside their ethical sphere of experience.
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