Feb 3
«Siamo ciò che facciamo ripetutamente. L’eccellenza, quindi, non è un atto, ma un’abitudine.»
Will Durant
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«Siamo ciò che facciamo ripetutamente. L’eccellenza, quindi, non è un atto, ma un’abitudine.»
Will Durant
Buongiorno
A little birthday shopping with @privatelydiscoveredmoments 🖤
"Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art"
Will Durant
Killing someone on camera is the best example of discrimination and racism in the American executive authorities. With the current government, this is being reinforced and hushed up or glossed over as self-defence. But violence remains violence and murder remains murder.
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Killing an innocent man even though he begged for mercy and said he couldn't breathe is incredibly cruel and unworthy of a so-called first world country.
Although we think that after the first two years of the Trump administration, it is no longer a first world country.
Testosterone and anphitamie tests should be carried out daily by the executive authorities, including anti-aggression training.
Some of the men simply have too much muscle, which can only be built up with aids. The toxic masculinity plus racist profiling combine to create an image of exclusive authorities that are not there for the citizens but are rather used against them.
De-escalation is a foreign concept; the military outfits and vehicles alone show that something is wrong with these authorities.
The citizens do not need to be protected from the police; rather, the police are responsible for protecting all citizens, and the disproportionate use of force cannot be overlooked.
With the toxic macho government and its narcissist lawbreaker in the highest office, the whole situation is becoming more horrific rather than better.
Law and order has become....... order.
The law is obviously being officially disregarded!
A lawbreaker breaks the law and believes he has the right to do so.
Even though he is not a king.
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Woke is a strength, and people who believe that woke, morality and ethics are weaknesses ultimately have no place in society.
History is a fickle thing; the last French king before the French Revolution also thought that everything would stay the same! History taught him otherwise.
Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. This is your democracy. Make it. Protect it. Pass it on.
Thurgood Marshall
Each of you, as an individual, must pick your own goals. Listen to others, but do not become a blind follower.
Thurgood Marshall
When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
Will Durant
The Odyssey of Benedict Arnold - Benedict Arnold & The Durants
There are some figures in this story that were not traitors, ones that have been collectively labelled as 'Lumins' by Arnold & Co. This pair shows up in the eleventh chapter and are caricatures of the Durants, a husband-wife team of historians that wrote the Story of Civilization series.
They took on a monumental task and in the first volume, admitted that their approach will be full of errors. They kept going until their deaths in 1981, 2 weeks apart from each other!
I've referenced their books a few times and have been working my way through the eleven volumes, on and off, since around 2014. As of writing this, I'm in the 8th Volume, The Age of Louis the XIV!
I most likely won't finish the series before Arnold's own story is complete but wanted to include them since I've always enjoyed the way they can sum up a person's life in a paragraph or two.
Thank you for reading! This chapter has been up for a bit now but the story has kept moving along. Chapter XV is the start of the finale and has begun posting on various platforms below. We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
https://ko-fi.com/mongooseandson (For Reading Ahead + Support!)
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https://namicomi.com/en/title/re3w59Kj/the-odyssey-of-benedict-arnold/chapters?lang=en (For General Comic Viewing + Subscribes!)
https://mangadex.org/title/4f3f6c16-5c45-4ebb-83b3-855240b27d74/the-odyssey-of-benedict-arnold (On Mangadex now!)
Notes
Will & Ariel Durant - Journey. Robert Cohn Productions, 1973. Film.
Durant, Will & Ariel. The Age of Reason. Simon & Schuster: New York, 1961.
Durant, Will & Ariel. The Lessons of History. Simon & Schuster: New York, 1968.
Little, John. “A Visit with Will and Ariel Durant”. Northern River Productions, 2003. Film.
“Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing things historians usually record; while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the banks. Historians are pessimists because they ignore the banks of the river.”
— Will Durant
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.”
— Will Durant, “The Story of Philosophy”