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From: “Your Buddy”
Date: 2/2/17 11:12 AM (GMT-06:00)
To: harrywelty@charter.net
Subject: Re: 3 AM again | lincolndemocrat.com
Harry:
You said:
I do think that there is something admirable to be said for the virtue of loyalty which in marriage is generally referred to as fidelity. It is consonant with the traditional marriage vows of loving, honoring and obeying in sickness and in health.
From my quotations file:
Friedrich Wilhelm : One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love forever or hate forever or be forever faithful to someone is promising something that is not in his power.
Further, you had said:
Trump is infamous for never reading books.
Perhaps Kennedy and Clinton read much more than Trump reads, but they apparently still messed around.
“Your Buddy”
And I fire back:
Is your point that Neitzsche was right?
I think Freddy underestimated human will. That’s ironic because he was all about the superman. What kind of a superman has such a weak will?
As for Clinton’s and JFK’s shortcomings. It hardly exalts Trump for him to suffer from the same ones. Indeed, a part of my analysis was intended to point out that in addition to his being an unfaithful husband, Trump is, unlike those other two presidents, an intentionally ignorent, and even stupid president.
Any disagreement with this addendum?
Harry
I could add that Paul Ryan’s favorite philosopher, Ayn Rand, was an apostle of Neitzche’s and that her novel the Fountainhead reaked of its narcissism. Congressman Ryan kept her books on prominent display in his office until it was pointed out she thought Christianity and all its humility crap was a terrible influence on a good superman. Donald Trump comes to mind.
There is in fact a college that has become a shrine to Ayn Rand and her philosophy. Hillsdale College has become a sort of Lourdes for young conservatives. It has a sordid history that once begun is hard to turn away from.
Oh, and the young Republican who said folks like me were mass murderers……..He graduated from Hillsdale.
