- 01 Jan 2020 10:42
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That was brilliant. I always cringe when people compare Boris to Trump.
Boris had invited the Social Democratic Minister of Culture of Greece Melina Mercouri back in the day when he was President of the Oxford Union for a speech. Melina remains one of the most highly beloved political & social figures even among conservatives.
In the same note as this debate, the past few days we have been tracing the relationship between Great Britain and America in New York and the wider DC area, Annapolis, Georgetown, Alexandria, Virginia and one can clearly discern the evolution of the British spirit in the free open plains of America, away from Kings and Bishops & all manner of constraints. It is the same kind of evolution that Boris discovers between the sculptures of Egypt and the sculptures of Greece. It was highly patriotic Englishmen unshackling themselves from a series of insults & injuries that seemed to have no end and despite or rather because of their expressed patriotism they found a way to break free without breaking the glass. Their revolution was more of an evolution however that would not have been possible without their education, nor without their legal rights as Englishmen. They were struggling to protect their existing rights as men against injustice rather than grab new ones when "dad looked the other way". And that is why Boris is absolutely correct in his observation that the USA is the child of Britain much the same way that Rome is the child of Greece.
So, as per traditional Greek custom here is my own rebellious message on the 1st day of this New Year & Decade.
Rugoz wrote:
That was brilliant. I always cringe when people compare Boris to Trump.
Boris had invited the Social Democratic Minister of Culture of Greece Melina Mercouri back in the day when he was President of the Oxford Union for a speech. Melina remains one of the most highly beloved political & social figures even among conservatives.
In the same note as this debate, the past few days we have been tracing the relationship between Great Britain and America in New York and the wider DC area, Annapolis, Georgetown, Alexandria, Virginia and one can clearly discern the evolution of the British spirit in the free open plains of America, away from Kings and Bishops & all manner of constraints. It is the same kind of evolution that Boris discovers between the sculptures of Egypt and the sculptures of Greece. It was highly patriotic Englishmen unshackling themselves from a series of insults & injuries that seemed to have no end and despite or rather because of their expressed patriotism they found a way to break free without breaking the glass. Their revolution was more of an evolution however that would not have been possible without their education, nor without their legal rights as Englishmen. They were struggling to protect their existing rights as men against injustice rather than grab new ones when "dad looked the other way". And that is why Boris is absolutely correct in his observation that the USA is the child of Britain much the same way that Rome is the child of Greece.
So, as per traditional Greek custom here is my own rebellious message on the 1st day of this New Year & Decade.
Thomas Jefferson wrote:Believe me, dear Sir: there is not in the British empire a man who more cordially loves a union with Great Britain than I do. But, by the God that made me, I will cease to exist before I yield to a connection on such terms as the British Parliament propose; and in this, I think I speak the sentiments of America......
....I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.
EN EL ED EM ON
...take your common sense with you, and leave your prejudices behind...
...take your common sense with you, and leave your prejudices behind...