“The commonplace axiom that the ‘devil is in the details’ is generally wrong. The more often correct axiom holds that the ‘terror is in the trends’.”
Colin S. Gray Canadians in a Dangerous World
In my latest Epoch Times column I ask politicians, activists and citizens to think of something, anything, that governments in Canada should just stop doing, or trying to, because it’s not a legitimate state function or because they’re too overloaded just now to tackle that thing as well. If nobody can thing of even one, I don’t just know we have a problem, I know what it is.
In my latest Loonie Politics column I ask for discretion and charity while insisting that the character of those who would rule over us is a matter of key public importance.
“Indeed, one of the real lessons of history, is that nobody ever learns them. In every age and era, too many people believe that the experiences of others can’t apply to them. Their age and place is unique and therefore exempt from experience. Two other lessons of history are these: Nothing lasts forever, and very few people notice or care that their society is in trouble until it is too late.”
John Thompson in Mackenzie Newsletter April 1998 #32
“Those who tell the stories rule society.”
Widely cited on line [often attributed to Plato but I cannot find any specific place he supposedly said it, and it also turns up as native American wisdom. So I doubt Plato said it and if you know where he did please tell me, but if he did not say it he should have.]
“Why is experience so useless? One explanation is that most people are lazy and would rather not learn from the past. Instead, they hover in a gauzy present, one that has as little connection to what happened 10 years ago as to 10,000 years ago.”
Paul Kedrosky in National Post December 29, 1998
In my latest Epoch Times column I weigh the morality of giving Ukraine a particularly effective weapon that’s particularly dangerous to civilians.
In my latest National Post column I goggle at the sense of entitlement of our Governor General and leftist politicians.