Posted on 02/20/2012 2:48:50 PM PST by Kaslin
We are all created equal, but it pretty much goes downhill after that...........
Anybody hasn’t studied him, you’re missing out bigtime. I’ll save you some time here: best buy is the Library of America’s volume, go to www.loa.org and find Tocqueville’s “Democracy in America.” (I think it currently runs about $40 and is worth every damb penny!)
There are also some college-level explorations of his work on youtube, but they need to be taken with a grain of salt.
Special note to homeschoolers; this and Federalist Papers are absolutely essential — do NOT omit it from your curriculum!!!
This nation is in a potentially and likely fatal predicament.
Obama is just the latest symptom, not the embodiment of the disease.
I am thinking more and more that the mind disease which generates acolytes and "leaders" intent on destroying this country is not an accident. It is a process of evolution that was in evidence before this country was founded. Sure there were people who urged it along (Woodrow Wilson, FDR), but it has always been there. We may be seeing it come to a head and I feel sorry for my children and grandchildren.
You can get ‘Democracy’, the Federalist Papers, and a lot of other books and writings from around the founding of the nation for free on Kindle.
Just checked on amazon — you can get a used copy for around $14 plus shipping...or ask your local library to borrow a copy from another library in your state. But get it!! Goldhammer’s translation is superb, no other comes close.
Ugh! Rush, smoke, ceegar smoke at that, oh my eyes... :(
Another piece of literature that every conservative should have in his arsenal against liberals is the Grand Inquisitor by Doystoyevsky.
Here is the wikipedia synopsis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grand_Inquisitor
and he is the text:
http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/philosophy/existentialism/dostoevsky/grand.html
The thing is, Tocqueville needs a translation, and the best by far is Goldhammer’s, which is the Library of America edition of Democracy.
Absolutely. I'm a fanatic on these matters. Read Brothers K, and Crime and Punishment, or don't you dare tell me you're well-educated. They are part of the bare minimum for literacy.
(On the other hand, if you couldn't get through Dostoevsky's "The Idiot," I understand. I feel your boredom and your eyes rolling back in your head. You could go right to Don Quixote or almost anything of Voltaire, Dumas, or Turgenev of all things, and be vastly improved thereby. Not all Dostoevsky -- like not all Shakespeare -- is Grade A.)
To those of you who haven't "gotten" Dostoevsky, please try another translation. It makes a huge difference.
If we can go from zero to envy of the world in less than a hundred years once, I guess we can do it again.
Here's to going from Zero to Peak again.
OIf course it has 'always been there'... It's been there since Gan Eden. I believe it's called "basic human nature", and something we are called upon *daily* to combat in ourseleves, and at times, in those around us...
the infowarrior
Took two graduate level courses in Democracy in America, Volumes 1 & 2. Some of the best classes I took in College, with the exceptions of those taught by Douglas Dalgleish (RIP). EVERY American should read boh volumes of Democracy in America.
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I find the photo unappealing, you need to come to grips with that. Or at least find a more mature way to deal with it.
You might consider resizing your photos, too!
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