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A piece I wrote on one of the most fascinating and incredible thriftstore finds I've ever stumbled upon.
The Edwardians and Victorians were not like us, they believed in a nobility of their political class that's almost impossible to understand or relate to, and that believe, that attribution of nobility is tied up with something even more mysterious: their belief in the fundamental nobility of rhetoric.
Still not sure entirely how I feel about this, or how sure I am of my conclusions but this has had me spellbound in fascination and so I wrote about it.
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Your reading comprehension is the one that's failed. Did i say Churchill was "unknown" no I said he was minor: On par with Buttigieg or Crenshaw.
I'm well aware of his early life and adventures in South Africa, that doesn't change the fact he was a minor politician in 1909, not a major party figure nor household name. Likewise I said Hilter was self educated from classical text explicitly stating he lacked a university education.
As for the matter of Conspiracy vs. decay. Mediocrity is a choice. Anyone who ascends the heights of power only to be mediocre deserves to be hated as if it was a conscious choice. If they are incapable of doing their positions and prominence justice, they can resign and let better men take their place... However they don't and instead prop each other up in their mediocrity. That's conspiracy.
If a judge would charge the inherent organization of the institution as conspiracy if the result were a crime, I will likewise charge it as conspiracy when the result is mediocrity and decay.
You would ask if there was sufficient malice to will the negative result from the onset... I ask if there was ever sufficient good will for a positive result. The fact that vastly more effort is always expended in covering up the failure than avoiding the failure I think tells us all we need to know. Dereliction of duty is a crime, the attempt to cover it up and reconstitute it as the standard is conspiracy.
And the failure is so total, the will to fail so entirely instituted that it comes down to a "twitter whore" shilling a blog to share these works, when I've taken actual university level courses in Rhetoric that only circled the same 4-5 civil rights leaders inevitably praised as "Articulate"
If I've hit a nerve I'm glad. The mediocrity of our age demands such oceans of burning rage...
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