"Jefferson wrote of the affectation that some are to be saddled and ridden by those fit for ruling others."
—I learned a couple of years back that Jefferson ripped that from Col. Richard Rumbold, who used the booted and spurred metaphor in something he wrote right before his execution. By the state. For opposing the state. Naturally.
"We can say that this divine principle of subsidiarity is the very spirit of gentlemanliness. A gentleman doesn’t take from the hands of his subordinates what they can do on their own. He trusts them to do what they can do—and refrains from doing it himself. A gentleman relies on his gentleman’s gentleman to look after his dinner jacket and give him a last brushstroke before he enters the dining room. (By the way, the very term for a valet, “gentleman’s gentleman,” is itself fraught with meaning and furnishes us with a precious hunch: The valet is a gentleman, too.) The contrary of this attitude of gentlemanly trust is well expressed by the German language: Besserwisserei, or “You won’t do that properly, I’ll do that for you.” As a doctrine of providence, this sort of compulsive interference is exactly wrong. God is not meddlesome."
I'm not confident that the people involved in writing about how to be a gentleman are in a position to give instructions. That a valet or lady's chamber maid might be of "high borne" heritage is of minimal interest to me.
With regard to God, no, He is not meddlesome. Powerful. Loving. Good. And living. Praise God. Amen.
There was a sort of emergency that began in Boston in 1770 when British troops fired on the people there. Crispus Attucks, iirc, was the first casualty of the war. John Adams was a lawyer and defended the Brit troops despite much clamour for summary justice. Groups like the Sons of Liberty became more active and there was a committee of correspondence amongst the several colonies to see if they could put together a plan to gain independence. There were lots of camps and schools within this set of groups. Trips were made to England to gather support in Parliament, which was scant, and at the court of George III who was insane. By the last month of 1773 there were men in Boston throwing tea into the harbour there. Things moved into an active phase, with gooferment agents tarred and feathered, magistrates hiding in their homes, some fleeing to other parts of the colonies, or to the British colonial plantation islands in the Caribbean such as Nevis (which is where Alexander Hamilton came from). From the 12th month of 1773 until the tenth month of 1774 there was peace and freedom in Boston, which had no govt at all. Then about 8,000 British troops began arriving and there was chaos again. I wrote a bit about it here: https://l5news.substack.com/p/the-path-behind
You probably know of the American revolutionary war from the 19th day of the 4th month of 1775. Lexington and Concord. The military governor of Boston sent troops to seize the guns and gunpowder of the colonial militias at Concord. They were opposed, back when people in Massachusetts believed in freedom. Things went along until 1781 when the last land battle ended in victory, by which time it was a global war including the empires of Holland, Spain, France, Britain, and iirc Russia. Several provinces in India that had no love for the British occupiers joined the fray. The last naval battles in which American ships took part ended around 1785, although there was a peace treaty of sorts out of Paris in 1783.
So, when you say, "our founding fathers" those are the men who founded the country. And they did so with particular attention to a Declaration of Independence. There was a loose confederation of states initially, the Articles of Confederation. Federalists and freemasons will say that it was terrible and bad and did everything wrong. It pretty much did one thing wrong, it issued a Continental currency that was inflated into oblivion. We should be so lucky today.
The founders are a different set of people from the more narrow "framers" of the constitution, who were almost entirely slave owning plantation magnates. Hamilton grew up on a plantation in Nevis, hated humanity, and was not a nice man. You can read Thomas diLorenzo's books on Hamilton for further background about how insidiously evil he was. James Madison was a plantation owner. Franklin was a literal demon worshipper, member of the Hellfire club.
The constitution was written to enslave everyone. It was never meant to limit the power of government. A good overview on this topic is Ken Royce's book Hologram of Liberty available from his Javelin Press.
The Declaration of Independence calls on God four times. The articles of confederation call on God one time. The constitution? Zero. There is a clause specifically forbidding any religious test for holding office, so that demon worshippers are holding office in large numbers now and since 1788. I could go on. They were amongst the most educated men, and they did it all deliberately.
The Anti-federalists like Patrick Henry and Benjamin Farmer caught them at it and tried to stop the worst of the damage. It was the anti-federalists who demanded a bill of rights.
Yes, friend E! It's true, as you may recall, that Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia. -grin- Continual and continuous are both acceptable in this context!
Thank you very much for taking the time with my essay, and for your kind words. It means a lot to me. I look forward to hearing from you again.
What you say about the material put forth by major news organisations about current crises is true. We ae being given, I believe, material that can be easily absorbed by persons with a fifth- to eighth-grade reading level depending on which venue we get our news from. Some people have high school degrees, some college degrees, and some have post-graduate degrees, so the level of engagement may feel like what you are being told is being pre-digested, de-complexified, and generally turned into a paste before it reaches you. =smile=
"Jefferson wrote of the affectation that some are to be saddled and ridden by those fit for ruling others."
—I learned a couple of years back that Jefferson ripped that from Col. Richard Rumbold, who used the booted and spurred metaphor in something he wrote right before his execution. By the state. For opposing the state. Naturally.
"We can say that this divine principle of subsidiarity is the very spirit of gentlemanliness. A gentleman doesn’t take from the hands of his subordinates what they can do on their own. He trusts them to do what they can do—and refrains from doing it himself. A gentleman relies on his gentleman’s gentleman to look after his dinner jacket and give him a last brushstroke before he enters the dining room. (By the way, the very term for a valet, “gentleman’s gentleman,” is itself fraught with meaning and furnishes us with a precious hunch: The valet is a gentleman, too.) The contrary of this attitude of gentlemanly trust is well expressed by the German language: Besserwisserei, or “You won’t do that properly, I’ll do that for you.” As a doctrine of providence, this sort of compulsive interference is exactly wrong. God is not meddlesome."
From https://www.firstthings.com/article/2019/02/god-as-a-gentleman
I'm not confident that the people involved in writing about how to be a gentleman are in a position to give instructions. That a valet or lady's chamber maid might be of "high borne" heritage is of minimal interest to me.
With regard to God, no, He is not meddlesome. Powerful. Loving. Good. And living. Praise God. Amen.
Did the article say that the valet might be "highborn"?
There was a sort of emergency that began in Boston in 1770 when British troops fired on the people there. Crispus Attucks, iirc, was the first casualty of the war. John Adams was a lawyer and defended the Brit troops despite much clamour for summary justice. Groups like the Sons of Liberty became more active and there was a committee of correspondence amongst the several colonies to see if they could put together a plan to gain independence. There were lots of camps and schools within this set of groups. Trips were made to England to gather support in Parliament, which was scant, and at the court of George III who was insane. By the last month of 1773 there were men in Boston throwing tea into the harbour there. Things moved into an active phase, with gooferment agents tarred and feathered, magistrates hiding in their homes, some fleeing to other parts of the colonies, or to the British colonial plantation islands in the Caribbean such as Nevis (which is where Alexander Hamilton came from). From the 12th month of 1773 until the tenth month of 1774 there was peace and freedom in Boston, which had no govt at all. Then about 8,000 British troops began arriving and there was chaos again. I wrote a bit about it here: https://l5news.substack.com/p/the-path-behind
You probably know of the American revolutionary war from the 19th day of the 4th month of 1775. Lexington and Concord. The military governor of Boston sent troops to seize the guns and gunpowder of the colonial militias at Concord. They were opposed, back when people in Massachusetts believed in freedom. Things went along until 1781 when the last land battle ended in victory, by which time it was a global war including the empires of Holland, Spain, France, Britain, and iirc Russia. Several provinces in India that had no love for the British occupiers joined the fray. The last naval battles in which American ships took part ended around 1785, although there was a peace treaty of sorts out of Paris in 1783.
So, when you say, "our founding fathers" those are the men who founded the country. And they did so with particular attention to a Declaration of Independence. There was a loose confederation of states initially, the Articles of Confederation. Federalists and freemasons will say that it was terrible and bad and did everything wrong. It pretty much did one thing wrong, it issued a Continental currency that was inflated into oblivion. We should be so lucky today.
The founders are a different set of people from the more narrow "framers" of the constitution, who were almost entirely slave owning plantation magnates. Hamilton grew up on a plantation in Nevis, hated humanity, and was not a nice man. You can read Thomas diLorenzo's books on Hamilton for further background about how insidiously evil he was. James Madison was a plantation owner. Franklin was a literal demon worshipper, member of the Hellfire club.
The constitution was written to enslave everyone. It was never meant to limit the power of government. A good overview on this topic is Ken Royce's book Hologram of Liberty available from his Javelin Press.
The Declaration of Independence calls on God four times. The articles of confederation call on God one time. The constitution? Zero. There is a clause specifically forbidding any religious test for holding office, so that demon worshippers are holding office in large numbers now and since 1788. I could go on. They were amongst the most educated men, and they did it all deliberately.
The Anti-federalists like Patrick Henry and Benjamin Farmer caught them at it and tried to stop the worst of the damage. It was the anti-federalists who demanded a bill of rights.
Yes, friend E! It's true, as you may recall, that Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia. -grin- Continual and continuous are both acceptable in this context!
Thank you very much for taking the time with my essay, and for your kind words. It means a lot to me. I look forward to hearing from you again.
What you say about the material put forth by major news organisations about current crises is true. We ae being given, I believe, material that can be easily absorbed by persons with a fifth- to eighth-grade reading level depending on which venue we get our news from. Some people have high school degrees, some college degrees, and some have post-graduate degrees, so the level of engagement may feel like what you are being told is being pre-digested, de-complexified, and generally turned into a paste before it reaches you. =smile=
If you want to tackle something with greater complexity and more threads of oddity, try this one: https://l5news.substack.com/p/free-market-money
God bless you. Amen.