COLLECTIVE MADNESS
“Soft despotism is a term coined by Alexis de Tocqueville describing the state into which a country overrun by "a network of small complicated rules" might degrade. Soft despotism is different from despotism (also called 'hard despotism') in the sense that it is not obvious to the people."
Very Nice. There are several things of the "ancient" world beyond modern expectations.
ReplyDeleteThanks
I’m still in a state of shock over the implications to our own age and understanding. Glad to share it with you.
ReplyDeleteThe separation between the ancient world and our own was not based on intelligence. It is technology - things like metallurgy. Pythagoras may have be as intelligent as Einstein; he just did not have as many shoulders of giants to stand on.
DeletePlato wasn't a technocrat, but it is still awfully hard to think about philosophy without him.
Delete>>>But Churchill doesn't credit Stuart simply with saving the battle for Lee; he claims the cavalryman's raid was exactly one of those "sharp agate points" that changes destiny. In his alternative history, Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia took Washington within three days of Gettysburg. Lee then declared the end of slavery in the South—a "master stroke," Churchill wrote, that swung British opinion behind an alliance with the Confederacy. Faced with such a formidable combination, and with the moral issue of slavery removed, President Abraham Lincoln agreed to peace that September in the Treaty of Harpers Ferry, which gave all slaves their freedom and established the South as an independent nation.<<<
DeleteChurchill writes an alternative history of our Civil War, and Jeb Stuart cancels World War One.
Churchill Imagines How the South Won the Civil War
By Ernest B. Furgurson
http://www.historynet.com/churchill-imagines-how-the-south-won-the-civil-war.htm
They didn't have jet packs in those days though.
ReplyDeleteHere is Quirk 'stealing the show' at a Michigan game.
http:/www.youtube.com/watch?v=hovp_YB89S0
10 minutes till game time, Vandal Fans across the USA and around the World.
Notice how he slinked over to the side lines and took off stealing the show from the Marching Band?
DeleteThat's Q for ya.
The Vandies have had more points scored on them via 'the big play' than any other team in the country !
ReplyDeleteBig play = 30 yards or more, or some such.
The secret of our success in this category is that the defense 'never shows up'.
DeleteNice sunny day in Georgia. Very steady warm wind breezing down the field from goal post to goal post.
DeleteKickoff !
DeleteIdaho starts from the 20 yard line....
I hired a local college girl as a spotter to see if she can find Quirk, if he is here......big binoculars.....
DeleteIdaho to the 45 !
3rd and 11......we are in Georgia territory at about the 45.......
Delete1st down at the 26 !!!!!
DeleteVandies on the march......3rd 1st and 2 from the 18......1/2 yard from the first down.......going for the field goal.......
DeleteGood !
Idaho 3
Georgia Southern 0
"Bobbo, does Quirky have a silly Vandal mask?" my spotter asks.....
51 yard run by GS, down to the Idaho 25........
DeleteTouchdown from the 8, quarterback keeper, not a hand on him......defense is still sitting in the locker room......
DeleteIdaho 3
Georgia Southern 7
Wow !
DeleteIdaho pass over the middle down to the 30......
Idaho player Duckworth may be injured. He might be related to the Duckworths that make the jet boats.......injury time out.....
DeleteDuckworth Jet Boats
Deletehttp://www.duckworthboats.com/
We are going for it on a fourth down and seven........big mistake........idiotic.......GS take over on the 25
DeleteCoach is gonna hear about that stupid call at the next Vandal Booster meeting.....
DeleteGeorgia State all the way down to the 22.......pass.......Touchdown GS
That will make it 14 to 3........and I will just post the scores.......but you get the drift......we are going to get clobbered
13 to 3 - missed the extra point
My spotter thinks she may have seen Quirk slinking about....
So far it's simply Georgia knife through Idaho butter......
DeleteWow !
DeleteNice long drive by Idaho, passes and running......
Idaho 10
Georgia Southern 13
Knife through Idaho butter -
DeleteIdaho 10
Georgia Southern 20
What the hell?
DeleteMy radio coverage has flipped back over to country western music........
I suspect some Southern subterfuge, some damnable confederate trickery.........
DeleteFucking Statler Brothers is all I get.....
DeleteJust when the Vandies were on the march again....
DeleteWait, it's halftime......my spotter sees Quirk coming over the field in an ultralight......about a hundred yards up......wheels over the stadium......off to the left........she's got him identified by the Vandal mask......two people in the ultra.....like this....
Deletehttps://www.google.com/search?q=pictures+of+ultralights&client=firefox-a&hs=zmj&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=fflb&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=EYk5VNK4FsPQiwLC8oGIDA&ved=0CB8QsAQ&biw=1002&bih=445#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=-S1JRxuVohUI6M%253A%3BPXmT0pAR34zgNM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.kathmandunepaltour.com%252Fwp-content%252Fuploads%252F2012%252F06%252Fultralights.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.kathmandunepaltour.com%252Fultra-lights%252F%3B500%3B500
Looks to be Maria in front........
Holy Shit they're back......coming in really low this time, over the goal posts.......then up and out and wheeling to the south........Q waving at the crowd.......crowd beginning to clap and yell....
DeleteOdd looking, Q in the Vandal mask, with those big flight goggles on.......he's got some kind of back pack on.......
DeleteA third pass, this time high, really really high.........Holy Shit Quirk's bailed out !!......free fall......spread eagled.......down down down......down down down down........whoa something has deployed.....parachute?.........wings !!!!
DeleteThat crazy bastard is now hovering over the 50 yard line, using the breeze like a hawk does the wind over a ridge......nearly perfectly still now........not moving...........he's deployed a banner.......my spotter can make it out........FREE KURDISTAN NOW !!!......
O man, Quirk has landed on the 50 yard line......the Stadium Police are rushing in........
DeleteHe's ripped off his wings........he has.....he has......a Jet Pack on his back........the Police are closing in.........Quirk is waving at the crowd.......LIFTOFF......he has ignited the Jet Pack, right from the 50 yard line........just before the Police were on him........he is heading straight.......straight through the Idaho goal posts!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteFifty yard human field goal !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Then up and out, past the scoreboard.......wheeling off to the south........the crowd is delirious..........roaring with delight......
Quirk has stolen half time, made a political point........and gotten scott free away !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
O my, o My My My......
Final score
DeleteIdaho 24
Georgia Southern 47
Next week we get clobbered by New Mexico State, Vandal Fans !
DeleteBe sure to tune in.
The broadcast here was interrupted due to a big storm.
Home in the Dome next week.