"You have chosen to risk your lives for the defense of this country. I will not insult you by saying that you are dedicated to selfless service — it is not a virtue in my morality. In my morality, the defense of one's country means that a man is personally unwilling to live as the conquered slave of any enemy, foreign or domestic. This is an enormous virtue." - Address To The Graduating Class Of The United States Military Academy at West Point - New York, March 6, 1974
OK I didn’t know of that quote. Nicely dug up, sir!
I did not realize someone so otherwise intelligent would be capable of using blatant ego massaging to maintain two contradictory positions.
“the defense of one’s country means that a man is personally unwilling to live as the conquered slave of any enemy, foreign or domestic”
That’s not at all why people go to war. Americans then or now are not going to be slaves at any time as individuals, at least not in any sense that would be prevented by them going to war. Other people, 100s of years from now might be saved from slavery by their actions in maintaining US power now. But certainly not them. No one going into the army thinks they’re saving themselves from slavery.
She’s using a false device to maintain two contradictory positions - her support for America to fight in war, and this madness of anti-sacrifice, which is 100% against Christianity, and all conservative thought.
Ah. Why are the great artists always insane.