Saturday, 15 June 2013

A Sackful of Sayings No. 15

Four places to be most careful today: (1) the borders of Syria and its neighbours, (2) the geographical joint between the two parts of Mali, (3) the enclave of Gaza, and (4) the inner sanctum of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. 

There are many heroes on the front lines protecting the bases of civilization.  Our reporters and academics fail to see it: they call them victims and participants in illegal wars.  In the eyes of the post-modernists, war has become a war crime: justice no longer counts for anything. 

When whales run aground, many hundreds of people rush to protect them and lead them back into safe waters.  The pod hurtles itself against the shore again, and then again.  The gesture of the rescuers is noble, but futile; nature is cruel and stupid. 

There are many places where women are abused and murdered on a regular basis.  Some commentators call the perpetrators idiots.  I call them brutal savages.  Idiots don’t know what they are doing.

Before we discover if there is intelligent life on other planets, we should search for it here on earth.


First knowledge and facts, then understanding and application, then wisdom.

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