tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7565573.post6785911052750279788..comments2023-11-02T05:17:01.705-04:00Comments on Dr. Sanity: THE VINDICTIVE TRUTHDr. Sanityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05490927712024477670noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7565573.post-59448621107611687822012-10-04T13:24:40.669-04:002012-10-04T13:24:40.669-04:00I see myself as a recovering liberal, so the idea ...I see myself as a recovering liberal, so the idea of malignant narcissism resonates. I recognize it in myself, but notice that even when I was much younger something stopped me from fully partaking of it. I got a Great Society grant to try to rehabilitate young prisoners. I actually managed to turn a few of them around, but was honest enough to write in my report to Washington that even with heroic efforts I couldn't claim the process was cost effective. I should have lied so i could have gotten the next grant...and the one after that. Then I would have succeeded in becoming a malignant narcissist. Now I'm 70 and although I still have defense mechanisms I can't take them very seriously anymore. It is plain enough that death will do quite nicely for all of them. I find their value depreciates exponentially with time. lgudehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12774491337993415578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7565573.post-63270389127086913542012-10-02T09:26:13.976-04:002012-10-02T09:26:13.976-04:00"ethics and morality are relative and "a..."ethics and morality are relative and "anchored" to feelings and whim"<br /><br />Time now for some classic authors to come forward and tell us some wisdoms, only our schools refuse to teach such thinking to our children.<br /><br />The key word, the complete meaning as the Greeks understood it to be is:<br /><br /> "Sophrosyne"<br /><br />However, time may not wait, for the cliffs are looming and we are being herded in that direction.<br /><br />We won't be the first civilization to go over the cliff.<br /><br />The mob...the mob...the mob beckons!RJnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7565573.post-44181129802066166102012-10-02T07:16:22.283-04:002012-10-02T07:16:22.283-04:00I had learned that poem slightly differently:
He ...I had learned that poem slightly differently:<br /><br />He who knows not and knows not he knows not is a fool. Shun him.<br /><br />He who knows not and knows he knows not is a child. Teach him.<br /><br />He who knows and knows not that he knows is asleep. Wake him.<br /><br />He who knows and knows that he knows is wise. Follow him.<br /><br />The ending of the persian version as well as the rest of your post makes me think of my favorite opening quote from Gene Rodenberry's Andromeda:<br />"Those who fail to learn history<br />are doomed to repeat it;<br />those who fail to learn history correctly--<br />why they are simply doomed."<br /><br />I just wish we knew a way to keep them from dooming us along with them.Library-Gryffonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06446982343602702829noreply@blogger.com