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Political and cultural commentary based on a world view shaped by the works of Plato, Aristotle, Confucius, Averroes, Maimonides, Spinoza, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Sartre and Bertrand Russell "What is the use of studying philosophy if all that it does for you is to enable you to talk with some plausibility about some abstruse questions of logic, etc., and if it does not improve your thinking about the important questions of everyday life, if it does not make you more conscientious."-Wittgenstein

Tuesday, July 14, 2026

1789

Bastille Day 1789— France celebrates it but forgot what it means for European civilization. Napoleon forgot it and 1812 was the result. Hitler never understood it and 1945 was the result. NATO’s misunderstanding of it is about to bring about another tragedy. Ex oriente lux.X

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Tuesday, July 14, 2026

1789

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