Eric's statement here sums it up best for me. "Both men were realists. They saw the world as it is and sought to make it better. Today, we are surrounded by weak minded whiners who confront a world as they want it to be instead of as it is."
Weak-minded whiners abound today. And I would add that weak-minded whiners are usually cowards.
The left see the world as Rousseau. They are objectively, demonstrably wrong but because they speak their truth and believe with all their might they right and righteous they in fact prove Hobbes right.
Excellent column, Erick! I was distraught reading an NBC News column that feigned objectivity but got their point across that Mr. Kissinger was in fact, a war criminal, dismissive of his achievements. Thanks for setting the record straight. Those of us who were there in his "heyday" appreciate it.
For those of us old enough to remember Carter ran on the promise to fire Kissinger. Deeply tainted by the Watergate scandal the voting public had had enough. His accomplishments were overshadowed by him being part of the Nixon White House. Time erased many aspects of those years from peoples memory but he never fully regained the luster he had gained by his efforts to end the conflict in Vietnam.
Our world is less for their passing. Not because they are gone but because so many who come after them willfully fail to learn anything from their monumental efforts. We will have to learn those lessons again. Hopefully, we will get them right, again.
The left is doomed to repeat the failures of history because they have learned nothing. The Dark Ages were liberal utopia. The rest of us will suffer the fools.
I once knew a highly educated man who looked upon billionaires with not distain, but possessing of pure evil and in favor of limiting the creation of said wealth via government restrictions and laws. I had no means of understanding him other than he was an idiot.
Some peole think wealth is finite, a pie and when one person has so much, other can only have little. The reality is wealth is like art. It can be created and also destroyed. Created and multiplied by an idea and hard work. And, just as there were and are centers where great art was created, wealth is created in certain centers. (large cities, tech areas, the West in general) to the benefit of all nearby even if minimally.
I often think about the glory of Europe. Al the incredible architecture and art. All built by the creation and accumulation of wealth. Faemrers and brick layers are very important, but it is those with wealth which employ them. If there were no workers one might ask? On this planet, generally speaking, workers are in infinite supply. Capital is finite.
For all the incredible work Kissenger did (and didn't he have just the best accent? ) I would be hard pressed to say his work was more meaningful than Munger's. I might argue Munger's was way more important.
Great column. Two great men who bettered human life and were examples of how to live. Memento Mori! I remind myself of this everyday. However, God endures forever and Jesus is King. As Christians, we have comfort and confidence in how it ends and why we are here - briefly…
You are so right about "God endures forever and Jesus is King." And the Bible tells us that we will be in a "One World Gov." when the seven year peace agreement is signed and we start the last seven years. We are closing in on those times.
Since I got my start in the early 1930's, I watched people like this get rich. But I also saw them get with Rockefeller and other rich people to get the ONE WORLD GOV. started. That was in the 1960's. Then the TRI-LATERAL COMM. in the 1980's. Now we have the ONE WORLD GOV. telling biden what to say and when to say it to control this Nation and soon, the World. It is the WEALTHY of this world that are approaching complete control of the World.
Yes, these two men did a lot for our Nation back early, but it was to build it up to be the one that was used by the wealthy to start the control of the World. Now we see it.
Do you correctly correlate wealth and control, Don? Surely some wealthy people have large influence, but do not other super rich rail against said influence? Politicians have the power, yet they are largely from meager backgrounds even if a meaningful portion make a few million along the way.
I am saying that in order to be a member of the ONE WORLD GOV., you must be wealthy. Not the other way around. Many wealthy people in the US do many great things for so many other people.
Help me, Don. I am yet undecided about OWG, but from what I have seen, there are plenty of powerful people in that asserted cabal which are not super wealthy. Is Obama not part of said OWG?
I had a list of the people that were members back in 1975. But in 1983 we were being moved by moving van that was doing 5mph down a steep slope, yet was picked up and flew through the air over 70ft and landed on its side and crashed and totally burned. All of the other families stuff was satanic, and ours was Christian. The Lord showed us that the Angeles and demons had a fight and the Angeles did it all in. The moving company more than took care of us for all that happened. A number of people came to the Lord. Including the driver that lived. So I have NO regrets.
But the list was lost as all of our other things we sometimes long for, but Our Lord is always good and in control.
I do not know about Obama or really any one there any more as three of the five of us have passed away and so we have not discussed any of it for over 10 years. I just stay up with what I get from my different news stuff.
Eric's statement here sums it up best for me. "Both men were realists. They saw the world as it is and sought to make it better. Today, we are surrounded by weak minded whiners who confront a world as they want it to be instead of as it is."
Weak-minded whiners abound today. And I would add that weak-minded whiners are usually cowards.
The left see the world as Rousseau. They are objectively, demonstrably wrong but because they speak their truth and believe with all their might they right and righteous they in fact prove Hobbes right.
They are the dictators they fear.
You said it all with the last line.
And may I add Barack Obama’s and the Biden’s
There is no worse human than Larry Fink! RIP to two great men…
Erick, your writing style is exemplary, soulful, compassionate, honest and brave.
Thank you! Well put!
The TRUTH is not cruel and destructive, it simply is. You can gaslight and twist it, accept it and move on, or repent.
Excellent commentary!
More Bernie Marcus's and less Alejandro Mayorakas's!
Amen squared to your final paragraph, Erick. Thank you.
Excellent column, Erick! I was distraught reading an NBC News column that feigned objectivity but got their point across that Mr. Kissinger was in fact, a war criminal, dismissive of his achievements. Thanks for setting the record straight. Those of us who were there in his "heyday" appreciate it.
For those of us old enough to remember Carter ran on the promise to fire Kissinger. Deeply tainted by the Watergate scandal the voting public had had enough. His accomplishments were overshadowed by him being part of the Nixon White House. Time erased many aspects of those years from peoples memory but he never fully regained the luster he had gained by his efforts to end the conflict in Vietnam.
What a great tribute. Thank you, Erick.
Our world is less for their passing. Not because they are gone but because so many who come after them willfully fail to learn anything from their monumental efforts. We will have to learn those lessons again. Hopefully, we will get them right, again.
The left is doomed to repeat the failures of history because they have learned nothing. The Dark Ages were liberal utopia. The rest of us will suffer the fools.
I apologize up from for this musing:
I once knew a highly educated man who looked upon billionaires with not distain, but possessing of pure evil and in favor of limiting the creation of said wealth via government restrictions and laws. I had no means of understanding him other than he was an idiot.
Some peole think wealth is finite, a pie and when one person has so much, other can only have little. The reality is wealth is like art. It can be created and also destroyed. Created and multiplied by an idea and hard work. And, just as there were and are centers where great art was created, wealth is created in certain centers. (large cities, tech areas, the West in general) to the benefit of all nearby even if minimally.
I often think about the glory of Europe. Al the incredible architecture and art. All built by the creation and accumulation of wealth. Faemrers and brick layers are very important, but it is those with wealth which employ them. If there were no workers one might ask? On this planet, generally speaking, workers are in infinite supply. Capital is finite.
For all the incredible work Kissenger did (and didn't he have just the best accent? ) I would be hard pressed to say his work was more meaningful than Munger's. I might argue Munger's was way more important.
Great column. Two great men who bettered human life and were examples of how to live. Memento Mori! I remind myself of this everyday. However, God endures forever and Jesus is King. As Christians, we have comfort and confidence in how it ends and why we are here - briefly…
You are so right about "God endures forever and Jesus is King." And the Bible tells us that we will be in a "One World Gov." when the seven year peace agreement is signed and we start the last seven years. We are closing in on those times.
Since I got my start in the early 1930's, I watched people like this get rich. But I also saw them get with Rockefeller and other rich people to get the ONE WORLD GOV. started. That was in the 1960's. Then the TRI-LATERAL COMM. in the 1980's. Now we have the ONE WORLD GOV. telling biden what to say and when to say it to control this Nation and soon, the World. It is the WEALTHY of this world that are approaching complete control of the World.
Yes, these two men did a lot for our Nation back early, but it was to build it up to be the one that was used by the wealthy to start the control of the World. Now we see it.
Do you correctly correlate wealth and control, Don? Surely some wealthy people have large influence, but do not other super rich rail against said influence? Politicians have the power, yet they are largely from meager backgrounds even if a meaningful portion make a few million along the way.
I am saying that in order to be a member of the ONE WORLD GOV., you must be wealthy. Not the other way around. Many wealthy people in the US do many great things for so many other people.
Help me, Don. I am yet undecided about OWG, but from what I have seen, there are plenty of powerful people in that asserted cabal which are not super wealthy. Is Obama not part of said OWG?
I had a list of the people that were members back in 1975. But in 1983 we were being moved by moving van that was doing 5mph down a steep slope, yet was picked up and flew through the air over 70ft and landed on its side and crashed and totally burned. All of the other families stuff was satanic, and ours was Christian. The Lord showed us that the Angeles and demons had a fight and the Angeles did it all in. The moving company more than took care of us for all that happened. A number of people came to the Lord. Including the driver that lived. So I have NO regrets.
But the list was lost as all of our other things we sometimes long for, but Our Lord is always good and in control.
I do not know about Obama or really any one there any more as three of the five of us have passed away and so we have not discussed any of it for over 10 years. I just stay up with what I get from my different news stuff.