Sep 30, 2022·edited Sep 30, 2022Liked by T.L. Davis
Very well said, T.L. To me, the single most important sentence is this: "It’s in the power of the individual that America grew into the richest most powerful nation in the world". The individual is - and has always been - everything!
"subjecting the power of the individual to the group consensus. We need to absolutely reject that." Myself, I've been rejecting that premise forever, it seems. Hasn't made life particularly easy for sure. I know for a fact that I'm not prepared 'enough' on any level (due to numerous injuries) as I 'should' be. I have no control over that, unfortunately. I strive for more knowledge constantly, as a result of my physical ailments. Though limited, they're not totally neglected either.
As T.L. is, I'm worried that more folk can't (or refuse) to be informed, in time. I remain cautiously optimistic (I have to!) that we as AMERICANS can and will prevail. If *anybody* can, it's AMERICANS and AMERICA! Now, if folk in general can 'get it together' it'll work. I seriously doubt that the previous thought applies to the folk who read this letter, though! Now, if only there was a wizard that could just snap his fingers, or wave his wand, and remove the blinders from folk's eye's! But hope is NOT a viable option! Brings to mind the old commercial - 'Just do it'. We're seeing that mindset in real time, right here in good ole FLA., as we work on getting outta the mess Mr. Ian left for us!
T.L. Davis... your fricking book "9 Principles of Freedom" is fantastic!
It is eloquent, but simplistic articulation in writing about the purity of RIGHTS. For this dyslexic A.D.D.
person, it even keeps my attention.
This comment is not just from 'Brother' to 'Brother' of the 2008 financial crash (my wife and I lost the largest part of the ten million dollars we'd busted our chops for over the previous 25 years to build from nothing), but from Author to Author.
You drive the nail deeply into the wood... your words hammer home your message. I love reading your essays!
Regards,
Jack Lawson
Associate Member, Sully H. deFontaine Special Forces Association Chapter 51, Las Vegas, Nevada
Author of the “Civil Defense Manual,” “The Slaver’s Wheel,” “A Failure of Civility,” “And We Hide From The Devil” and “In Defense.”
Alexander Solzhenitsyn lamented the Russian peoples' lack of preparation and resistance to the Soviet take-over in his Nobel Prize winning book "Gulag Archipelago…
Quoting him from his book-“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security Operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.” - Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn from “The Gulag Archipelago”
From Jack Lawson… an American in 1RLI Support Commando and attached to Rhodesian “C Squadron” SAS Africa 1977-79
Thinking 19th Century may be too optimistic. Tenth Century, maybe. It would be a slog to reach the 19th. If you think about it, the 19th Century society was fueled by wood, hydro, steam, and horse power. My Grandfather would have adapted just fine. He was of an age with one in the 20th and the other still in the 19th. He knew how to make it work. How many do now?
None, though there are some folks who are quite ingenious and will work it out in time, amazing things we can't conceive of now, because the power of thought has not been used to overcome problems that had been solved 150 years ago.
Very well said, T.L. To me, the single most important sentence is this: "It’s in the power of the individual that America grew into the richest most powerful nation in the world". The individual is - and has always been - everything!
"subjecting the power of the individual to the group consensus. We need to absolutely reject that." Myself, I've been rejecting that premise forever, it seems. Hasn't made life particularly easy for sure. I know for a fact that I'm not prepared 'enough' on any level (due to numerous injuries) as I 'should' be. I have no control over that, unfortunately. I strive for more knowledge constantly, as a result of my physical ailments. Though limited, they're not totally neglected either.
As T.L. is, I'm worried that more folk can't (or refuse) to be informed, in time. I remain cautiously optimistic (I have to!) that we as AMERICANS can and will prevail. If *anybody* can, it's AMERICANS and AMERICA! Now, if folk in general can 'get it together' it'll work. I seriously doubt that the previous thought applies to the folk who read this letter, though! Now, if only there was a wizard that could just snap his fingers, or wave his wand, and remove the blinders from folk's eye's! But hope is NOT a viable option! Brings to mind the old commercial - 'Just do it'. We're seeing that mindset in real time, right here in good ole FLA., as we work on getting outta the mess Mr. Ian left for us!
Nuff said for now.
Y'all take care,
Mike.
T.L. Davis... your fricking book "9 Principles of Freedom" is fantastic!
It is eloquent, but simplistic articulation in writing about the purity of RIGHTS. For this dyslexic A.D.D.
person, it even keeps my attention.
This comment is not just from 'Brother' to 'Brother' of the 2008 financial crash (my wife and I lost the largest part of the ten million dollars we'd busted our chops for over the previous 25 years to build from nothing), but from Author to Author.
You drive the nail deeply into the wood... your words hammer home your message. I love reading your essays!
Regards,
Jack Lawson
Associate Member, Sully H. deFontaine Special Forces Association Chapter 51, Las Vegas, Nevada
Author of the “Civil Defense Manual,” “The Slaver’s Wheel,” “A Failure of Civility,” “And We Hide From The Devil” and “In Defense.”
Alexander Solzhenitsyn lamented the Russian peoples' lack of preparation and resistance to the Soviet take-over in his Nobel Prize winning book "Gulag Archipelago…
Quoting him from his book-“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security Operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.” - Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn from “The Gulag Archipelago”
From Jack Lawson… an American in 1RLI Support Commando and attached to Rhodesian “C Squadron” SAS Africa 1977-79
I'm humbled, sir. Thank you.
Thinking 19th Century may be too optimistic. Tenth Century, maybe. It would be a slog to reach the 19th. If you think about it, the 19th Century society was fueled by wood, hydro, steam, and horse power. My Grandfather would have adapted just fine. He was of an age with one in the 20th and the other still in the 19th. He knew how to make it work. How many do now?
None, though there are some folks who are quite ingenious and will work it out in time, amazing things we can't conceive of now, because the power of thought has not been used to overcome problems that had been solved 150 years ago.
Good essay today T.L.
Our nation has already been destroyed/it stays in place due to inertia.
The level of absurdity continues to see new highs. On practical terms
consider a murderer, kidnapper, armed assault and battery, and grand
theft car jacker, all of these crooks walk free/no bail felons. It is a free for all,
in major cities. I am going to quit with the lists now.
We are in an WROL phase (hat tip Jack Lawson) from the top down/rotten head
style. There are some too thick headed to admit it, but many of us know all about
it. Others are ostriches on purpose saying, "don't tell me anything, I have enough stress
already", so, one has to give up on those people. It is sad isn't it?