WE OBLIGE TO THE “REAGANISTIC” MYTH DISCIPLES
Giving up some of our ideological territory for theirs
Several quotes, in which I find truth, only meant to supplement my free verse:
“What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? - Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.”
— Lavater.
Johann Kaspar (or Caspar) Lavater (15 November 1741 – 2 January 1801) was a Swiss poet, writer, philosopher, physiognomist and theologian.
“The passions are the only orators that always succeed. They are, as it were, nature's art of eloquence, fraught with infallible rules. Simplicity, with the aid of the passions, persuades more than the utmost eloquence without it.
— Rochefoucauld.
François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac (15 September 1613 – 17 March 1680) was an accomplished French moralist of the era of French Classical literature and author of Maximes and Memoirs, the only two works of his dense literary œuvre published. His Maximes portray the callous nature of human conduct, with a cynical attitude towards putative virtue and avowals of affection, friendship, love, and loyalty.
“Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.”
― Fredrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher, prose poet, cultural critic, philologist, and composer whose work has exerted a profound influence on contemporary philosophy.
“Praise undeserved is satire in disguise.”
— Broadhurst.
Henry Broadhurst (13 April 1840 – 11 October 1911) was a leading early British trade unionist and a Lib-Lab politician who sat in the House of Commons for various Midlands constituencies between 1880 and 1906.
“An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.”
— Thucydides.
Thucydides (c. 460 – c. 400 BC) was an Athenian historian and general. His History of the Peloponnesian War recounts the fifth-century BC war between Sparta and Athens until the year 411 BC. Thucydides has been dubbed the father of "scientific history" by those who accept his claims to have applied strict standards of impartiality and evidence-gathering and analysis of cause and effect, without reference to intervention by the gods, as outlined in his introduction to his work.
“To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary night; to listen to the falling rain, and crouch for warmth beneath the lee of some old barn or *rick, or in the hollow of a tree; are dismal things - but not so dismal as the wandering up and down where shelter is, and beds and sleepers are by thousands; a houseless rejected creature.”
— Charles Dickens
*a stack of hay, corn, straw, or similar material, especially one formerly built into a regular shape and thatched.
Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are widely read today.
I find the mythology of Reagan to a be particularly frustrating phenomenon with an extremely long shelf-life. I do live on enacting my father’s rants, warnings, and frustrations with Ronald Reagan, through my writing. I’m not sure if I provide for the passion of my father, but I do as I can. My father passed within Reagan’s first term. Some in the family considered my father’s words at the Television to only be eccentric and much too overblown in those times, some still may consider this still to be so. I don’t, my father was spot on about Reagan, and time has only convinced me that much more.
32nd Posting, May 29, 2023