In my latest Rebel video, I make the case that Canute, far from being a fool who believed he could stop the tide, was in fact trying to stop the tide of servile and even impious flattery directed his way. This sort of attitude is sorely lacking among today's politicians. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip0STTdlM3k
In an excruciatingly studied effort to show more passion on the campaign trail, Jeb Bush says he would have killed baby Hitler given the chance. Apparently the question is a thing these days thanks to New York Magazine, and Bush's response was a mild obscenity (wow, such authenticity) followed by "yeah, I would!" Phooey. If I might refer you to my Sept. 28 post on the apparent opportunity of Henry Tandey, VC, to shoot a wounded Hitler on September 28 1918, it's absurd to suppose that anyone could have known a corporal in the trenches of World War I would have turned into a successful genocidal warmongering maniac politician in the 1930s. It's not even a category into which that young soldier could fall.
As for the notion that you could identify a baby who would later certainly do great evil if you didn't slaughter it in its infant innocence, that you could determine scientifically its necessarily malignant influence on history and preemptively exterminate it with a clean conscience, let's leave that for Minority Report and stick with the fairly elementary fact that killing babies is wrong.
So is appeasing dictators, but that's a story for another decade.
As for politicians faking passion, it's always a sorry sight.
In my latest National Post column I explain that China's reversal on the one-child policy is a stunning intellectual event of the first importance.
In my latest piece for the Rebel I explain why it's a good thing that the British prefer to say " trick or treat” instead of chanting “Remember, remember the 5th of November, gunpowder treason and plot”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjTlSP5524Y
In my latest Rebel video I reminisce about very ancient computers and this cool thing that allowed computers to talk to one another. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PKV8s3K6tc
In my latest piece for The Rebel I talk about how Sigmund Freud’s theories, after an obscure start with the release of advance copies of The Interpretation of Dreams on Oct. 22 1899, came to play a large part in making the 20th century a relativistic nightmare. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUkIglKa4dY
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