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Thanks for this, Walker! I see the connection to wokeism, which demands both total equality and also the ability to act on whatever impulse one happens to have. It is good to understand the origins of these notions.

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Intellectuals by Paul Johnson is a fantastic book - read it and laugh out loud at the stupidity, incompetence, and immorality, of these revered misfits unable to manage their own lives.

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Hard for dead men to defend themselves from society interpretation. Evil begets evil. Indeed. At this time was Christianity moral? Forget exploitives, conjecture, innuendo. I call this "Machiavelli Affect". Aristocrats lacking skill become critical yet fail promises of intellectual motivation and found wanting. Do we not see this with Cato The Great? Master King Alexander? Yes.

'Words cut faster and deeper than a thousand bayonet'. Bonaparte negates a sword cuts both ways. E.G. United States self exterminators

~M.G. Napoleon Bonaparte

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