Canuckus Deploracus wrote:
I am not sure if I should "clang" you for your earlier exchange with Archie or not...
I saw nothing outrageous in your post... But will admit to only comprehending half...
Thanks for the alternative perspective...
Saw nothing outrageous, why if this wasn't chit chat I'd unload a bundle.
Anyhow was Julius Caesar politically incorrect when he wiped out the Republic ?. Yes he was to begin with and then for a year or so after that, no he wasn't, it changes in the form of a pattern of events, sometimes the changes are short lived, that's what Brutus believed, history proved him right and wrong the Empire needs a Figure Head and the Figure Head needs a Republic but the Republic can exist without a Figure Head sometimes.
We once were discussing on OPP Edward Gibbon, maybe he can help us understand where political correctness came from, or maybe it was so vague maybe I only imagined it, political correct, who was telling me that, was it only a criminal cable of voices in my head, is my conscience out to murder them as they feast on the low h*****g fruit of ignorance, what to do?.
Hummmm, the tree will eventually grow out of their reach, meanwhile, - and correct me if I'm wrong, - the Roman Republic was a Greek thing and the Philosopher's of Greece (I'm quoting)
"the philosopher's of Greece deduced their morals from the nature of man, rather than from God. They meditated, however, on the Divine Nature, as a very curious and important speculation; and in the profound inquiry, they disputed the strength and weakness of human understanding. Of the four most celebrated schools, the Stoics and the Platonists endeavoured to reconcile the jarring interests of reason and piety.]
Socrates lived on the edge of political correctness and Platonism was founded by the Socratic era, yet Plato was all for Spartacus the first historical culture to record bromance (correct me if I'm wrong) and Socrates committed suicide to preserve his political correctness which the noble gesture did, noble gesture, due to the fact that he was ordered to recant or be executed as a heretic.
My point is that Socrates preserved his political correctness probably to the end of the human race, but the rigid enforcement of Spartan military procedures that was unequivocally upheld by Plato gave rise to bromance and then the State legislated statutes specifically for the vindication of sexual relationship between men, (I don't know about lesbian relations in Spartacus).
This seems to me like the student wanting to go one better than the teacher, so if that is how it started 2•5 millennia ago it probably means a pattern was established where the culture of conscience will murder the interloper on behalf of political correctness, in his mind only.
Thanks for the reply, I know it's a bit overboard, but I have dreams of walking the plank.