This is the conviction I gradually came to: genuine democracy is impossible without a genuine and strong elite. It sounds contradictory. But that's the way our world is. It's illogical. The destruction of genuine hierarchies of competence, which has been happening since the First World War, leads to the plebescification first of the masses and now of the elites.
When it comes to true patriotism, to "good old America," there's no better. Admiral James Stockdale and his wife wrote "In Love and War." It's a wonderfully simple story about what keeps individuals and communities from descending into chaos and hell. Love and faith. Faith in the existence of truth, conscience, and honor. However, it seems a man who spent seven years in Vietnamese captivity, including many years in solitary confinement, hasn't told the whole story...
This is the conviction I gradually came to: genuine democracy is impossible without a genuine and strong elite. It sounds contradictory. But that's the way our world is. It's illogical. The destruction of genuine hierarchies of competence, which has been happening since the First World War, leads to the plebescification first of the masses and now of the elites.
When it comes to true patriotism, to "good old America," there's no better. Admiral James Stockdale and his wife wrote "In Love and War." It's a wonderfully simple story about what keeps individuals and communities from descending into chaos and hell. Love and faith. Faith in the existence of truth, conscience, and honor. However, it seems a man who spent seven years in Vietnamese captivity, including many years in solitary confinement, hasn't told the whole story...
Great read.