SAYINGS OF GREAT MEN!

SAYINGS OF GREAT MEN!

Nature is always consistent and a Nice Reflection on us all!

You may want to try an experiment with your friends. It can be for the fun of it, or you can do it in an effort to provoke some thoughtful commentary.

Don't be surprised if your effort falls flat on its face and you get thrown out on your ear!!

Take this little saying, for example:

How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think.... 

If you said that President Franklin Roosevelt said this, Roosevelt lovers would agree this is a great saying by a great man. If, by chance, you suggested it was really President Donald Trump that said it, you run the risk of starting a verbal war depending on whether you are talking to a Trump-lover or a Trump-hater! And if you were to tell the truth and give the real source (Adolph Hitler), you might lose your job, your girl-friend, friends, your Facebook Account and whole lot of other things. You would be called a Nazi and become an outcast!

Try this little gem:

The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan.

That so clearly shows in the Climate Change Hoax it is hilarious. But, if you went through the same exercise, mentioning different leaders as the source of that comment, you would get reactions corresponding to what the mental midget you are talking to is capable of comprehending! But mention the real source (again Adolph Hitler) and you have a major problem on your hands!

Or this one:

Republics decline into Democracies and Democracies degenerate into Despotisms... 

If you suggested that saying was attributed to Adolf Hitler you would get a virulent reaction! You would quickly learn that you are a bad guy for quoting such a horrible leader. If you "corrected" your "mistake" by saying it was really ARISTOTLE that said that, no one would believe you! Such is the power of propaganda!

One more:

Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man except it be interwoven with that memory  of ancient things of a superior age.

Again, if you attributed the saying to Mao Zedong, the Chinese Communist Leader you run the risk of being called a communist yourself, maybe Anti-American, or if you run into a rabid lefty, he would agree with you Mao was a "great man!" But if you were to say it was a quotation from Cicero, no one would believe you!

Shakespeare was a student of Mankind. In his play, "A Midsummer Nights Dream," he makes the point very clearly in the story of star-crossed lovers and an impetuous imp:

Lord, what Fools these Mortals be!

When people cannot think for themselves and appreciate commentary on its own merits, regardless of the source and act accordingly, we make ourselves out to be the bigots and hypocrites we always condemn others for being! Remember that no one has a monopoly on truth and no one is always wrong! That is a hard lesson to learn for most people! Some things are naturally correct and it really does not matter WHO said it!

Politics is pure poison...

and that's not difficult to demonstrate...

To be perfectly clear, that saying you can attribute to the blogger!

People at one with the Environment

Written and Photographed

by

Harald Hesstvedt Scharnhorst

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