The View From 1776

Thucydides and Plato on Iraq and the United States

Liberal-socialists egg the voters on to demand that we abandon hard-won victory in Iraq.  Fighting for our liberties is just too hard, they say.  Let’s get back to a full-fledged socialistic welfare state and find even more disgusting and degrading forms of sexual perversion to entertain ourselves.

Some lessons from warfare in classical Greece apply to our situation.

1. Quantum physics indicates a multifarious gap or division in the
   causal chain; particles to which position cannot be
   assigned at all times, systems that pass from one energy
   state to another without manifestation in intermediate
   states, entities without mass, fields whose substance is
   as insubstantial as “a probability.”

   Only statistical conglomerates pay tribute to
   deterministic forces. Singularities do not and are
   therefore random, unpredictable, mutant, and in this
   sense, uncaused. The finest contribution inanimate
   reality is capable of making toward choice, without its
   own selective agencies, is this continuing manifestation
   of opportunity as the pre-condition to choice it defers
   to the natural action of living forms.

   Biological science affirms that each level of life,
   single-cell to man himself, possesses attributes of
   sensitivity, discrimination, and selectivity, and in
   the exclusive and unique nature of each diversified
   life form.

   The survival and progression of life forms has all too
   often been dependent upon the ever-present undeterminative
   potential and appearance of one unique individual organism
   within the whole spectrum of a given life-form. Only the
   uniquely equipped individual organism is, like The Golden
   Wedge of Ophir, capable of traversing the causal gap to
   survival and progression. Mere reproductive determinacy
   would have rendered life forms incapable of such potential. 

   Only a moving universe of opportunity plus choice enables
   the present reality.

   Each individual human being possesses a unique, highly
   developed, and sensitive perception of diversity. Thus
   aware, man is endowed with a natural capability for enact-
   ing internal mental and external physical selectivity.
   Quantitative and qualitative choice-making thus lends
   itself as the superior basis of an active intelligence.

   Human is earth’s Choicemaker. His title describes
   his definitive and typifying characteristic. Recall
   that his other features are but vehicles of experi-
   ence intent on the development of perceptive
   awareness and the following acts of decision and
   choice. Note that the products of man cannot define
   him for they are the fruit of the discerning choice-
   making process and include the cognition of self,
   the utility of experience, the development of value-
   measuring systems and language, and the accultur-
   ation of civilization.

   The arts and the sciences of man, as with his habits,
   customs, and traditions, are the creative harvest of
   his perceptive and selective powers. Creativity, the
   creative process, is a choice-making process. His
   articles, constructs, and commodities, however
   marvelous to behold, deserve neither awe nor idol-
   atry, for man, not his contrivance, is earth’s own
   highest expression of the creative process.

   Human is earth’s Choicemaker. The sublime and
   significant act of choosing is, itself, the Archimedean
   fulcrum upon which man levers and redirects the
   forces of cause and effect to an elected level of qual-
   ity and diversity. Further, it orients him toward a
   natural environmental opportunity, freedom, and
   bestows earth’s title, The Choicemaker, on his
   singular and plural brow.

   Deterministic systems, ideological symbols of abdication
   by man from his natural role as earth’s Choicemaker,
   inevitably degenerate into collectivism; the negation of
   singularity, they become a conglomerate plural-based
   system of measuring human value. Blunting an awareness
   of diversity, blurring alternatives, and limiting the
   selective creative process, they are self-relegated to
   a passive and circular regression.

   Tampering with man’s selective nature endangers his
   survival for it would render him impotent and obsolete
   by denying the tools of diversity, individuality,
   perception, criteria, selectivity, and progress.
   Coercive attempts produce revulsion, for such acts
   are contrary to an indeterminate nature and nature’s
   indeterminate off-spring, man the Choicemaker.

   Until the oppressors discover that wisdom only just
   begins with a respectful acknowledgment of The Creator,
   The Creation, and The Choicemaker, they will be ever
   learning but never coming to a knowledge of the truth.
   The rejection of Creator-initiated standards relegates
   the mind of man to its own primitive, empirical, and
   delimited devices. It is thus that the human intellect
   cannot ascend and function at any level higher than the
   criteria by which it perceives and measures values.

   Additionally, such rejection of transcendent criteria
   self-denies man the vision and foresight essential to
   decision-making for survival and progression. He is left,
   instead, with the redundant wreckage of expensive hind-
   sight, including human institutions characterized by
   averages, mediocrity, and regression.
   
   - from The HUMAN PARADIGM

   Posted by Choicemaker  on  11/01  at  08:45 AM

2. I couldn’t read any more after reading the following twisted piece of logic in your article: “We certainly will have over-reached if liberals can manipulate public opinion to abandon Iraq immediately and thereby embolden Islamic radicals to believe that we really are just paper tigers.”

   Historically it is Athens who did the over-reaching in its hubris, in promoting democracy. So logically you should be blaming BushCo and neocons for over-reach, not liberals.

   Posted by  on  11/01  at  10:15 AM

3. Well, if you are going to be an apologist for Kerry, Kennedy, and Kompany (Liberal/Socialists), what about their under-reaching in the world of principled ideas by compromising Freedom with on-going no-guts kissey surrender?

   Mr. Chamberlain, 1939, proved forever the terrible mistake of delusionary liberal under-reaching: World War II.

   Liberals constantly choose and reap the same puke lesson over and over again without ever learning ...  Grade: F-
   So be it!

   Posted by Choicemaker  on  11/01  at  06:41 PM

4. What an eloquent argument.

   Posted by  on  11/02  at  09:07 AM