For DeeW Eisenhauer's farewell speech...words worth considering.
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Posted by: LateForLunch ®

11/27/2023, 23:15:44
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenhower%27s_farewell_address#:~:text=So%20is%20the%20very%20structure,power%20exists%20and%20will%20persist.


R.Buckminster Fuller had similar concerns more in regard to the government/economic sector collusion between greenhead multinational corps and government.  

That being said, the left's attempt to apply DE's warning to the Vietnam War was odious. That had little or nothing to do with the U.S. being in Indochina. 






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Thank you, Late!!! Exactly!
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Posted by: DeeDee ®

11/30/2023, 15:52:52
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The words of that speech have been misappropriated over the years...
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Posted by: LateForLunch ®

11/30/2023, 17:55:15
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...similar to how Nietzsche's writings often are. The words have always impressed me as being well-chosen (likely it was written with the help of Dwight's brother) and profound. Great ideas/words are routinely abused by dilettantes, fakirs, shills and various other cacogenic ignorami (sic). 

Debasing profundity with shallow, idiotic context reminds me of something from Vonnegut's, Sirens of Titan. In that story an ignorant dolt named Malachi Constant becomes a billionaire from sheer luck. He tries to buy DaVinci's Mona Lisa painting from the Louvre and they refuse. Enraged he retaliates by putting a cigarette in her mouth and putting the image on advertisements for cheap, generic cigarettes.     






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Good stuff. Thanks.
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Posted by: Russ Walden ®

11/28/2023, 17:12:40
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