Amazing Avialae,
I continue in high appreciation your intellectual gifts and your courage and energy. You might also look to Sun Tzu and Clausewitz, who both realized that success in war was dominated by psychology. You also might look to the example of Lee, Jackson, N.B. Forrest, Wheeler, and John Brown Gordon. Nietzsche has some great sayings like: “And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music,” and “He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.” But Nietzsche often wanders from precise expression and moral harmony. That baggage is probably too heavy to sustain our very necessary populist movement.
Your points on unity are right on target and vitally necessary. To unity and liberty!
“The Union, next to our liberty, most dear.” — John C. Calhoun.
The Greeks had an ethical ideal, which pervaded the transmission of their culture to their children: Truth, Beauty, and Goodness. A short translation of Goodness, might be virtue, but they defined what was goodness and virtue: being in harmony with God and nature. The idea of an overall universal God who was the author of truth, beauty, and goodness, superseding their pantheon of lower more human gods, is found not only among the Greeks, but even among the Norse.
As you can probably tell, I am a Christian traditionalist very close to Lee and Gordon in thinking. “Dei veritas nunquam perit.” (The truth of God never perishes.)
I love your writing and speaking! You have extraordinary promise!!!
Mike S.
