We are what we are, and thus it is malicious harm when we are led to the contrary. Why is a strong man to lead us attractive? Because it is like a father to a family, or like God to mankind; that is to say both natural and right. It is not an accident that things grow worse as we drift away from these.
Our true hope is in the enthroned king, Jesus Christ, tearing away the veil and bringing us through the white throne judgment that ushers in the new heaven and earth. In the meantime, a true king who rules in accordance with the will of God must be better than what we have lately been subjected to.
I consumed this recent missive with my afternoon coffee, thank you for your intelligent and provocative piece. Is the Strongman always a singular figure or can there be a Strongman "network" or team? That seems to be the direction of things, where the cult-minded follow the Trump strongman and the rest of us turn to a collective for meaning?
Trump behaves like a strongman and fancies himself a strongman. But he's too stupid to be a good strongman. In my last piece I compared Trump not to Hitler but Kaiser Wilhelm: the guy who creates the mess out of which a genuine strongman arises.
My upcoming piece mentions a strongman network -- the Tonton Macoutes -- and talks about how Papa Doc managed to leverage his position as one of the Caribbean's most beloved doctors into becoming one of its most terrifying dictators.
I would say that every successful strongman has a network that's not only willing to spout slogans but to get their hands dirty. And I would also say that most collectivist movements sooner or later wind up with a charismatic leader who becomes the face and voice of the movement.
Excellent article. It leaves out the biological roots of meaning, which is where the very concepts of meaning arose. We are part of nature, in the universe and the universe in us, it looking out at itself. Stardust made conscious.
The biological has also become something uprooted, malleable in societies eyes. But if we can mirror natural systems, even though specific to this time and place in the universe, we will come closer to meaning. And transcendence into whatever lies within and without also plays a big role.
“The Fountain” urinal, degenerate in the extreme, as its creator was, is the opposite of all of this.
We are what we are, and thus it is malicious harm when we are led to the contrary. Why is a strong man to lead us attractive? Because it is like a father to a family, or like God to mankind; that is to say both natural and right. It is not an accident that things grow worse as we drift away from these.
Our true hope is in the enthroned king, Jesus Christ, tearing away the veil and bringing us through the white throne judgment that ushers in the new heaven and earth. In the meantime, a true king who rules in accordance with the will of God must be better than what we have lately been subjected to.
"that is to say both natural and right."
For infants and children, perhaps
A good mortal king is not exactly the same as a father (or God) but the similarities are not coincidental.
I consumed this recent missive with my afternoon coffee, thank you for your intelligent and provocative piece. Is the Strongman always a singular figure or can there be a Strongman "network" or team? That seems to be the direction of things, where the cult-minded follow the Trump strongman and the rest of us turn to a collective for meaning?
Trump behaves like a strongman and fancies himself a strongman. But he's too stupid to be a good strongman. In my last piece I compared Trump not to Hitler but Kaiser Wilhelm: the guy who creates the mess out of which a genuine strongman arises.
My upcoming piece mentions a strongman network -- the Tonton Macoutes -- and talks about how Papa Doc managed to leverage his position as one of the Caribbean's most beloved doctors into becoming one of its most terrifying dictators.
I would say that every successful strongman has a network that's not only willing to spout slogans but to get their hands dirty. And I would also say that most collectivist movements sooner or later wind up with a charismatic leader who becomes the face and voice of the movement.
Excellent article. It leaves out the biological roots of meaning, which is where the very concepts of meaning arose. We are part of nature, in the universe and the universe in us, it looking out at itself. Stardust made conscious.
The biological has also become something uprooted, malleable in societies eyes. But if we can mirror natural systems, even though specific to this time and place in the universe, we will come closer to meaning. And transcendence into whatever lies within and without also plays a big role.
“The Fountain” urinal, degenerate in the extreme, as its creator was, is the opposite of all of this.