Skip to content
  • Categories
  • Recent
  • Tags
  • Popular
  • World
  • Users
  • Groups
Skins
  • Light
  • Cerulean
  • Cosmo
  • Flatly
  • Journal
  • Litera
  • Lumen
  • Lux
  • Materia
  • Minty
  • Morph
  • Pulse
  • Sandstone
  • Simplex
  • Sketchy
  • Spacelab
  • United
  • Yeti
  • Zephyr
  • Dark
  • Cyborg
  • Darkly
  • Quartz
  • Slate
  • Solar
  • Superhero
  • Vapor
  • Default (No Skin)
  • No Skin
Collapse
Code Project
CODE PROJECT For Those Who Code
  • Home
  • Articles
  • FAQ
Community
  1. Home
  2. Other Discussions
  3. The Back Room
  4. Tocqueville critiques the left...

Tocqueville critiques the left...

Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved The Back Room
comquestion
22 Posts 6 Posters 0 Views 1 Watching
  • Oldest to Newest
  • Newest to Oldest
  • Most Votes
Reply
  • Reply as topic
Log in to reply
This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
  • O Oakman

    Stan Shannon wrote:

    Apparently my big mistake was trusting Jon's understanding of culture and history...

    ROFL, I wonder how long you searched for that quote. :laugh: I do note, in passing that the last line says that today's common usage is to include the prefix. Sometimes I'm not sure you read everything before jumping to a conclusion. However, I'm not sure that your aquaintance with Monsieur de Tocqueville was close enough to permit you the familiar form of address. But perhaps it was. (If you aren't sure of the difference, there was an excellent article in the American Spectator not too long ago.) See how much you are learning?

    Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface Algoraphobia: An exaggerated fear of the outside world rooted in the belief that one might spontaneously combust due to global warming.

    T Offline
    T Offline
    Tim Craig
    wrote on last edited by
    #21

    Oakman wrote:

    I'm not sure that your aquaintance with Monsieur de Tocqueville was close enough to permit you the familiar form of address. But perhaps it was.

    I'm sure Stan thinks he could refer to him with tu rather than vous. But then, maybe he doesn't know the difference. :suss:

    "Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it." -- P.J. O'Rourke

    1 Reply Last reply
    0
    • S Stan Shannon

      This is good stuff...[^] I see an innumerable crowd of like and equal men who revolve on themselves without repose, procuring the small and vulgar pleasures with which they fill their souls. .  .  . Above these an immense tutelary power is elevated, which alone takes charge of assuring their enjoyments and watching over their fate. It is absolute, detailed, regular, far-seeing, and mild. It would resemble paternal power if, like that, it had for its object to prepare men for manhood; but on the contrary, it seeks only to keep them fixed irrevocably in childhood; My God, how prescient... Sounds precisely like our current liberal/libertarian oppression.

      Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.

      F Offline
      F Offline
      fred_
      wrote on last edited by
      #22

      Stan Shannon wrote:

      This is good stuff...[^]

      Interestingly , the DoD blocks thaty link :confused:

      1 Reply Last reply
      0
      Reply
      • Reply as topic
      Log in to reply
      • Oldest to Newest
      • Newest to Oldest
      • Most Votes

      • Login
      • Don't have an account? Register
      • Login or register to search.
      • First post
        Last post
      0
      • Categories
      • Recent
      • Tags
      • Popular
      • World
      • Users
      • Groups