Sipsey Street Irregulars: VDH: "History's Complexity Should Discourage Retroactive Morality."

Friday, August 7, 2015

VDH: "History's Complexity Should Discourage Retroactive Morality."

"Instead, history is tragedy. It is complex. Moral assessments are dicey. With some humility, we must balance past and current ethical standards, as well as the elements of the good and the bad present in every life. And we must avoid cheap, politicized moralizing that often tells us more about the ethics and ignorance of today's grand inquisitors than the targets of their inquisitions."

4 comments:

Anonymous said...: Chuck Schumer to Defy Obama, Oppose Iran Deal

http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/08/06/schumer-to-defy-obama-oppose-iran-deal/; August 7, 2015 at 8:33 AM
Sean said...: O would some power the giftie gie us, to see ourselves as others see us...Robert Burns.; August 7, 2015 at 9:24 AM
Anonymous said...: The people who want to bury history are those who seek to repeat it.; August 7, 2015 at 9:30 AM
Anonymous said...: Chuck the gun grabbing Smuck Schumer fist alliance is always, was with the state of Israel. Not America and our people. And he takes his marching orders from AIPAC. Our so-called greatest ally in the mid east .Bull shit. Still waiting to see those 134 squibs avenged for their wrongful deaths. By Israeli aircraft and gunboats. Of the coast of Israel ,during the 6 day war. Those same allies, who sold Red China. The plans to the A-Bomb. That Jonathon Pollard stole ,while working @ Los Alamos N.M. Hear he's being released in November. So much for Treason. By the way Red China gave their toady lackey's North Korea ,those plans. Talk about Trading with the Enemy!!! Behind enemy lines. In Unconstitutional, collectivist ,Ct. I will never comply ,nor stand down. AAA/O.11B20.; August 7, 2015 at 2:04 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

Sipsey Street Irregulars

Friday, August 7, 2015

VDH: "History's Complexity Should Discourage Retroactive Morality."

4 comments:

Blog Archive

Followers