Found this today, following up on a comment someone made somewhere (lol), so I posted the below on my social media accounts. It tells the story of Biden 'protecting' us from COVID (and, for many who voted for him, 'protecting' us from Trump [Antifa can be the stand-ins for the 'mob' here]; from 'white nationalists' [BLM are stand-ins for the mob], from 'climate change;' and, going further back in our recent history, one can hear echoes in many Democrat campaign slogans) and then going on to falsely accuse Trump. And note the part about 'abolition of debts' (student loans) and 'partition of lands' ("we'll give you more stuff!" - the campaign slogan of Democrats for some time now).
"[W]hen [the tyrant] first appears ... he is a protector. ... How then does a protector begin to change into a tyrant? ...
"[T]he protector of the people[,] ... having a mob entirely at his disposal, ... is not restrained from shedding the blood of kinsmen [not literally; read the whole thing for context--Fla Mom]; by the favorite method of false accusation he brings them into court and murders them, making the life of man to disappear, and with unholy tongue and lips tasting the blood of his fellow citizen; some he kills and others he banishes, at the same time hinting at the abolition of debts and partition of lands: and after this, what will be his destiny? Must he not either perish at the hands of his enemies, or from being a man become a ... tyrant?"
(Plato, The Republic)
Want to know why leftist academics tried to convince us that "dead white men can't have known anything relevant to today?" Because they knew *a lot* that is directly relevant to today, but if we knew it we'd have been forewarned and so forearmed.
If you've not read Polybius, I advise doing so before coming to that conclusion. It's not long, and it shocked me.
Found this today, following up on a comment someone made somewhere (lol), so I posted the below on my social media accounts. It tells the story of Biden 'protecting' us from COVID (and, for many who voted for him, 'protecting' us from Trump [Antifa can be the stand-ins for the 'mob' here]; from 'white nationalists' [BLM are stand-ins for the mob], from 'climate change;' and, going further back in our recent history, one can hear echoes in many Democrat campaign slogans) and then going on to falsely accuse Trump. And note the part about 'abolition of debts' (student loans) and 'partition of lands' ("we'll give you more stuff!" - the campaign slogan of Democrats for some time now).
"[W]hen [the tyrant] first appears ... he is a protector. ... How then does a protector begin to change into a tyrant? ...
"[T]he protector of the people[,] ... having a mob entirely at his disposal, ... is not restrained from shedding the blood of kinsmen [not literally; read the whole thing for context--Fla Mom]; by the favorite method of false accusation he brings them into court and murders them, making the life of man to disappear, and with unholy tongue and lips tasting the blood of his fellow citizen; some he kills and others he banishes, at the same time hinting at the abolition of debts and partition of lands: and after this, what will be his destiny? Must he not either perish at the hands of his enemies, or from being a man become a ... tyrant?"
(Plato, The Republic)
Want to know why leftist academics tried to convince us that "dead white men can't have known anything relevant to today?" Because they knew *a lot* that is directly relevant to today, but if we knew it we'd have been forewarned and so forearmed.
http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/legacy/plato/tryanny.html
There’s been a lot of valid criticisms of The Fourth Turning. But that doesn’t stop me from being fascinated by it ha ha.
Fair enough but there is evidence a'plenty of Predictive Programming and Directed History....