"GJ: Actually, no, talking is the only way we will get into power. Even if you think you can seize power by force, the men who seize power alongside you must be bound together by more than force or money. They must be bound by honor. But beyond that, they must have some sort of shared goal, a vision of what they are after. That means a shared ideology. How do men come to share an ideology? They are talked into it. So even with a violent seizure of power, ideas must come first."
Hence the very old saying "The pen is mightier than the sword."
But I think the most apt corollary would be a paraphrase of another very old saying,
"A pen and a sword will get you more than will a pen alone."
Of course I agree with you. Great article, by the way. I admit I was mostly just trying to be humorous, not saying I had anything intelligent to add. I also believe that ideas are more important that brute force, or any kind of force. I think it's kind of Biblical, related to verses that say things like, "not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, saith the Lord."
"GJ: Actually, no, talking is the only way we will get into power. Even if you think you can seize power by force, the men who seize power alongside you must be bound together by more than force or money. They must be bound by honor. But beyond that, they must have some sort of shared goal, a vision of what they are after. That means a shared ideology. How do men come to share an ideology? They are talked into it. So even with a violent seizure of power, ideas must come first."
Hence the very old saying "The pen is mightier than the sword."
But I think the most apt corollary would be a paraphrase of another very old saying,
"A pen and a sword will get you more than will a pen alone."
Pens first, swords later.
Pens to gain power, swords to consolidate it.
Of course I agree with you. Great article, by the way. I admit I was mostly just trying to be humorous, not saying I had anything intelligent to add. I also believe that ideas are more important that brute force, or any kind of force. I think it's kind of Biblical, related to verses that say things like, "not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, saith the Lord."
I’m having a good time switching out other figures in the role of The Realist and asking myself “would they say something like that?”
I can’t figure out whether you are making fun of Plato or not
Not at all.
Heavy
I don’t understand why there is not a uniform in universal unity among Europeans like you see in Negroes or blacks or Spanish