tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580535460030164028.post7992923141273188553..comments2023-04-11T09:46:53.479+00:00Comments on anticant's arena: Curbing the abuses of poweranticanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18135207107619114891noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580535460030164028.post-90436468404493477932007-05-21T18:23:00.000+00:002007-05-21T18:23:00.000+00:00I sense an uncharacteristic, growing impatience, J...I sense an uncharacteristic, growing impatience, Jose...keep wise with it.Richard W. Symondshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11783091361323437959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580535460030164028.post-62921501724300869452007-05-21T18:07:00.000+00:002007-05-21T18:07:00.000+00:00When Lord Radcliffe said what he said in 1952 the ...When Lord Radcliffe said what he said in 1952 the circumstances were not the same as they are today. The same can be applied to Orwell.<BR/><BR/>One thing that did not happen at that time was the enormous problems caused by migrations. Delinquency has soared up at an incredible pace. Democracy has ben trampled by "you-know-who". Intellectuals were not under pressure from anywhere.<BR/><BR/>I am very much afraid persons of our time are needed to find solutions for present problems. That doesn't mean that the experience those illustrious persons contributed to our knowledge cannot help in that pursuit, I just mean circumstances are different.Josehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02081096450259201426noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580535460030164028.post-37481780843491155842007-05-21T09:19:00.000+00:002007-05-21T09:19:00.000+00:00Me ? Tell the truth to power- especially unpalatab...Me ? Tell the truth to power- especially unpalatable, life-and-death truth.<BR/><BR/>Ruffle angel feathers...afflict the comfortably numb...<BR/><BR/>And pray for a miracleRichard W. Symondshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11783091361323437959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580535460030164028.post-78535719052309489222007-05-21T06:10:00.000+00:002007-05-21T06:10:00.000+00:00Jose and Richard, when I think of any brilliantly...Jose and Richard, when I think of any brilliantly original ideas as to how best to proceed, I shall post them here.<BR/><BR/>Meanwhile, I am asking for yours!anticanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18135207107619114891noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580535460030164028.post-18617995350029203062007-05-21T05:25:00.000+00:002007-05-21T05:25:00.000+00:00Sometimes we should try to stand on the shoulders ...Sometimes we should try to stand on the shoulders of certain giants to see further. Sometimes not.<BR/><BR/>It's up to us to decide...Richard W. Symondshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11783091361323437959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580535460030164028.post-13698575212529056922007-05-21T05:09:00.000+00:002007-05-21T05:09:00.000+00:00I mean, Anticant, that what people said in their t...I mean, Anticant, that what people said in their time about how to run the world may not help now in the present circumstances. Are there no persons that of their own initiative come up with the right solutions to the problems we have today?<BR/><BR/>You quote illustrious persons of old, but you yourself - I am sure -may also have ideas of your own that might be of greater value nowadays.<BR/><BR/>We live today, they lived many years ago.Josehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02081096450259201426noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580535460030164028.post-86899765568338105352007-05-20T18:27:00.000+00:002007-05-20T18:27:00.000+00:00I don't quite get your point here, Jose. What I am...I don't quite get your point here, Jose. What I am asking in this post is HOW to improve the present lousy state of affairs. <BR/><BR/>I agree [for once] with Marx that while philosophers interpret the world, the point is to change it. How?anticanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18135207107619114891noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580535460030164028.post-60943251236132492002007-05-20T17:25:00.000+00:002007-05-20T17:25:00.000+00:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580535460030164028.post-67842462229246191802007-05-20T14:55:00.000+00:002007-05-20T14:55:00.000+00:00Dear Antiat,I am sorry I am a little bit out of th...Dear Antiat,<BR/><BR/>I am sorry I am a little bit out of the normal path in today's politics. Maybe it is because I'm fed up with old stories whose contribution to enhancing our system of liberties have done, if you excuse me, absolutely nothing to improve them, or perhaps I should say they have been completely ignored.<BR/><BR/>As a ruminant process in our society we just have limited ourselves to disgorge the ideas and swallow them without even thinking of their intrinsec values, letting ourselves be led in the direction some with definite intentions have wanted us to go towards.<BR/><BR/>We live today. Those who lived before us could not change it. Why should we follow that experience and not ours, why should we not think it over and availing ourselves selfishly of past experiences not improve them so that history does not be repeated?Josehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02081096450259201426noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580535460030164028.post-14507123332524730182007-05-19T19:50:00.000+00:002007-05-19T19:50:00.000+00:00"DON'T LET IT HAPPEN. IT DEPENDS ON YOU"(George Or..."DON'T LET IT HAPPEN. IT DEPENDS ON YOU"<BR/><BR/>(George Orwell - June 1949 - Statement on Nineteen Eighty-Four - his last-known published words - he died January 1950, aged 46)<BR/><BR/>How do we stop this "slide" into an Orwellian nightmare ?<BR/><BR/>Do something and something may happen.<BR/>Do nothing and nothing will happen.<BR/><BR/>Each one of us has to choose to do something - and then do it.<BR/><BR/>What did Orwell do ? He had an idea burning inside him, and he wrote a book in Jura - gravely ill. It was to be his last book. It was Nineteen Eighty-Four.<BR/><BR/>Thank you.Richard W. Symondshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11783091361323437959noreply@blogger.com