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er took back a liberty lost burke understood the stakes we should as well happy independence day folks we have work to do posted in uncategorized comments off on edmund burke and why our infighting is failing our values disquiet bring out your blogs posted on june 17 2019 by shaun kenney i truly cannot stand the moniker blogger as if writing online constituted a vocation never have been folks writers write regardless of the medium and if you ever want to know a sub par iq watch them use the word blogger screw you moron which is why i am so pleased to share this article with you reminiscing about the golden age of ideas when writing in a web log got abbreviated by mental hamsters to blog and what that cost and don t concern yourself with whether or not you write don t leave writing to writers don t delegate your area of interest and knowledge to people with stronger rhetorical resources you ll find your voice as you make your way there is however one thing to learn from writers that non writers don t always understand most writers don t write to express what they think they write to figure out what they think writing is a process of discovery blogging is an essential tool toward meditating over an extended period of time on a subject you consider to be important of course this is the utility of any writing medium whether it s the act of physically writing something down transcription from scribble to type or hammering things out on your green screen george r r martin style we used to be really good about this until twitter came about and we discovered that most people could only think in bumper sticker then came big data and the commodification of just about everything up to and including giving away all your personal data in exchange for a free service that monetizes every inch of your existence including your daily musings on the affairs of the world frankly i prefer a time where folks sat in coffee houses either playing chess or working on our little novellas while reading infinite jest as if we could all be the next david foster wallace today who even recalls why folks loved the man what he meant or why folks found some notions of resistance against onanistic culture instead of ideas art and poetry it all turned into self gratification likes retweets and chasing that gram or perhaps the democratization of information simply exposed us as the banal human beings we always were either way i think i preferred the blue pill nevertheless i do get the sense that i have lost my touch i was a better writer 10 years ago in some respects more confident self assured ready to set the world to rights with thunderbolt in one hand and snake in the other one supposes my twenty something self and my thirty something self would have gotten along famously whereas my forty something self i have just recently been introduced to these ranks would politely smile and nod wiedenbaum nails it here previously writing was an end today writing is a pleasurable end that quite frankly i tend to reserve for myself do i mind opining on current events and the things that interest me most certainly does it make me any money never has at least i don t see myself becoming an editor at national review or first things anytime soon yet writing as meditation has nearly always been my style to work out what i might think so that i can express what i actually think or better still to express the parameters for what i might believe that s valuable to myself even if it is not valuable to the world right does it matter if it is a physical journal vs a digital journal only in this one sense my ideas and thoughts are exposed to criticism here in a way that montaigne machiavelli or erasmus might not have tolerated in their essays so welcome to the republic of letters 2 0 this is a good place to be if anyone else is interested or not it is all the same posted in uncategorized 1 comment pro life republicans will be served well by freitas in sen 24 posted on may 29 2019 by shaun kenney this one shouldn t even be a tough choice tina freitas has no true reason to run for virginia senate a mother of three married to whom many consider to be a rising star in virginia politics and having held the most difficult of all careers a military spouse freitas could easily have chosen to allow someone else to carry the battle standards of the conservative movement and galvanized voters in her own way yet instead the issues that hanger raises that dares conservatives to challenge him are precisely the reasons that motivate freitas to lead smaller government and the right to life linking both is an emphasis on the role of families contrasted against the daddy knows best paternalism of richmond on these three issues alone freitas is not only an easy protest vote she would become an important voice in the virginia senate for commonsense conservatives values it is no small secret that the republican party in virginia is undergoing a catharsis of sorts one of three scenarios will play out either we will become the more dynamic and liberty leaning constitutional conservative party that many of us have been fighting to preserve and create over the last 20 years or we will backslide into either a reactionary populism or an entrenched establishmentarian mindset hanger embodies this calcification of leadership in the virginia senate practically daring conservatives to challenge him openly his weakness on the right to life in the post northam era should be an instant disqualificiation hanger s eagerness to shovel money and resources into the maw of planned parenthood is atrocious and disgraceful hanger s proclivity for never meeting a tax he didn t hike isn t a question of paying one s bills but rather an indicator of a fundamental disagreement as to who should run this commonwealth richmond or working families freitas is doing more than just reminding the establishment of their place rather freitas is reminding hanger et al that their titles do not confer some sort of mythical authority over the futures of virginia families but responsibilities owed to them to build a better more free society surely hanger s defenders will argue that education transportation and all of the realities of a functioning state matter intensely yet every time a politician prioritizes virginia s government over virginia s families there are other budgets that get cut food clothing the mortgage if hanger s fascination with tax hikes were matched with innovative new solutions that actually reinforced families promoted workforce development supported microfinance statewide and revamped the virginia education system both secondary and post secondary perhaps the roi on the taxpayers investment could be justified instead not only has hanger merely bankrolled the old system he has poured money into an organization whose sole purpose is to kill future taxpayers politicians tend to be 5 10 years behind their electorates hanger and norment continue to be the relics of this age clinging to power for its own sake but never with a desire to advance the conservative cause unless forced to do so no small wonder why the cancer of leftism and the calcification of leadership continues to survive in certain quarters never quite lifting a finger for the conservative movement unless to say see we told you so tina freitas embodies the very best of what grassroots conservatives in virginia look for in their leaders pro life pro family pro limited government and someone who believes our 2nd amendment rights should be defended the same way we treat our 1st amendment rights as a mother a military spouse and a community leader who views titles as responsibilities rather than stepping stones conservatives can rest easy knowing that freitas will defend all the values we hold dear and do so with integrity respect and common cause the term of proudly supporting people in public life is a term that is at times much abused virginians in the 24th senate district have every reason to be proud to support tina freitas not just because she represents our values but because she lives them as well posted in endorsements politics virginia senate comments off on pro life republicans will be served well by freitas in sen 24 thucydides on american politics posted on december 7 2018 by shaun kenney having spent a great deal of time with thucydides this year there is a certain portion of his history of the peloponnesian war that describes the violence inside the city of corcyra modern day corfu led by the two factions within the city given the fact that some public figures today use thucydides as a textbook i thought this reflection of the stasis read civil war of corcyra to be rather apt as a warning and a recommendation to take up the classics so bloody was the march of the revolution and the impression which it made was the greater as it was one of the first to occur later on one may say the whole hellenic world was convulsed struggles being everywhere made by the popular chiefs to bring in the athenians and by the oligarchs to introduce the lacedaemonians in peace there would have been neither the pretext nor the wish to make such an invitation but in war with an alliance always at the command of either faction for the hurt of their adversaries and their own corresponding advantage opportunities for bringing in the foreigner were never wanting to the revolutionary parties the sufferings which revolution entailed upon the cities were many and terrible such as have occurred and always will occur as long as the nature of mankind remains the same though in a severer or milder form and varying in their symptoms according to the variety of the particular cases in peace and prosperity governments and individuals are better minded because they are not plunged by imperious necessity to act against their will but war takes away the easy supply of daily wants and tames as a violent schoolmaster assimilating most men s characters to their conditions revolution thus ran its course from city to city and the places which it arrived at last from having heard what had been done before carried to a still greater excess the refinement of their inventions as manifested in the cunning of their enterprises and the atrocity of their reprisals words had to change their ordinary meaning and to take that which was now given them reckless audacity came to be considered the courage of a loyal ally prudent hesitation specious cowardice moderation was held to be a cloak for unmanliness ability to see all sides of a question inaptness to act on any frantic violence became the attribute of manliness cautious plotting a justifiable means of self defence the advocate of extreme measures was always trustworthy his opponent a man to be suspected to succeed in a plot was to have a shrewd head to divine a plot a still shrewder but to try to provide against having to do either was to break up your party and to be afraid of your adversaries in fine to forestall an intending criminal or to suggest the idea of a crime where it was wanting was equally commended until even blood became a weaker tie than party from the superior readiness of those united by the latter to dare everything without reserve for such associations had not in view the blessings derivable from established institutions but were formed by ambition for their overthrow and the confidence of their members in each other rested less on any religious sanction than upon complicity in crime the fair proposals of an adversary were met with jealous precautions by the stronger of the two and not with a generous confidence revenge also was held of more account than self preservation oaths of reconciliation being only proffered on either side to meet an immediate difficulty only held good so long as no other weapon was at hand but when opportunity offered he who first ventured to seize it and to take his enemy off his guard thought this perfidious vengeance sweeter than an open one since considerations of safety apart success by treachery won him the palm of superior intelligence indeed it is generally the case that men are readier to call rogues clever than simpletons honest and are as ashamed of being the second as they are proud of being the first the cause of all these evils was the lust for power arising from greed and ambition and from these passions proceeded the violence of parties once engaged in contention the leaders in the cities each provided with the fairest professions on the one side with the cry of political equality of the people on the other of a moderate aristocracy sought prizes for themselves in those public interests which they pretended to cherish and recoiling from no means in their struggles for ascendancy engaged in the direct excesses and in their acts of vengeance they went to even greater lengths not stopping at what justice or the good of the state demanded but making the party caprice of the moment their only standard and invoking with equal readiness the condemnation of an unjust verdict or the authority of the strong arm to glut the animosities of the hour thus religion was in honor with neither party but the use of fair phrases to arrive at guilty ends was in high reputation meanwhile the moderate part of the citizens perished between the two either for not joining in the quarrel or because envy would not suffer them to escape thus every form of iniquity took root in the hellenic countries by reason of the troubles the ancient simplicity into which honor so largely entered was laughed down and disappeared and society became divided into camps in which no man trusted his fellow to put an end to this there was neither promise to be depended upon nor oath that could command respect but all parties dwelling rather in their calculation upon the hopelessness of a permanent state of things were more intent upon self defence than capable of confidence in this contest the blunter wits were most successful apprehensive of their own deficiencies and of the cleverness of their antagonists they feared to be worsted in debate and to be surprised by the combinations of their more versatile opponents and so at once boldly had recourse to action while their adversaries arrogantly thinking that they should know in time and that it was unnecessary to secure by action what policy afforded often fell victims to their want of precaution thucydides history of the peloponnesian war iii 82 83 posted in uncategorized comments off on thucydides on american politics on the bacchae and discourse in america posted on november 4 2018 by shaun kenney about 10 years ago virginia s bloggerati held the world in the palm of our hand our perspectives were not just consulted they were feared such was the power that columnists and editorial boards held over the minds of virginians that elected officials feared this new set of variables yours truly happened to be one of those voices to some degree though we have 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