In my latest Epoch Times column I warn that politicians becoming too slick for words is a classic example of improving something until it is utterly ruined.
“People forget how fast you did a job – but they remember how well you did it.”
Howard Newton quoted in Cliff Chadderton Excuse Us! Herr Schicklgruber
“That history bore witness to a war between light and darkness, aeons old, and demanding from those on the side of good an unstinting watchfulness against evil, was a conviction that Tolkien shared with the Nazis. Admittedly, when articulating the mission of National Socialism, its leaders tended not to frame it in such terms. They preferred the language of Darwinism. ‘A cool doctrine of reality based on the most incisive scientific knowledge and its theoretical elucidation.’ So Hitler had defined National Socialism, a year before invading Poland and engulfing Europe in a second terrible civil war.”
Tom Holland Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
“In 1891, a 16-year-old Winston Churchill had a prophetic conversation with his schoolmate. Asked if he would ever go into politics, Churchill replied: ‘Well, I can see vast changes coming over a now peaceful world; great upheavals, terrible struggles; wars such as one cannot imagine; and I tell you London will be in danger — London will be attacked and I shall be very prominent in the defence of London.’”
The Culture Critic Nov. 16, 2024 [https://www.culture-critic.com/p/truth-about-churchill]
In my latest Epoch Times column I ridicule government pride and priorities in sending one of our few remaining naval assets to Antarctica to confirm the state’s views on climate instead of defending Canada.
In my latest Loonie Politics column I write a letter of expectations so our rookie Prime Minister will understand what he has to achieve if he wants to get rehired when his probationary term is up.
In my latest Epoch Times column I suggest we could make party platforms less preposterous and ephemeral by insisting that the politicians explain to us what practical obstacles they see to implementing their focus-grouped visions.
“Germany, which had been united as recently as 1871 and within one generation had become an awesome industrial and military power, was, on the eve of war [World War I], the foremost representative of innovation and renewal. She was, among nations, the very embodiment of vitalism and technical brilliance. The war for her was to be war of liberation, a Befreiungskrieg, from the hypocrisy of bourgeois form and convenience, and Britain was to her the principal representative of the order against which she was rebelling. Britain was in fact the major conservative power of the fin-de-siècle world.”
Author’s “Preface” in Modris Eksteins Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Era