The Past sings to us. It sings with the voices of our ancestors. Through song and music, they tell us Their Story which is Our Story. Why not stop to listen?
The Music of Heroic Past
Tag: history
Who can save Ukraine?
They say that the only people who see the end of the war are the dead. I wonder if that is the only certainty in this solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short Life of ours.
The Logic of Cold Wars
The logic of cold wars dictates that if one Block is black the Other must be white.
Rights of Man – An Appeal to Heaven
Thomas Paine was one of the most lucid and far seeing thinker and Founding Father of the American Revolution, and of the English Enlightenment. One of his works of note, the Rights of Man, prefaced and in many ways accompanied both the Revolutionary War as well as the French Revolution. The Year was 1789. The … Continue reading Rights of Man – An Appeal to Heaven
The Power of Syncretism
Share what you know about the year you were born. On December 19, 1979, two things happened: the secretary general of the Communist Party of the USSR, Leonid Brezhnev, ordered the Red Army to invade Afghanistan, and I came into this world. Not many people know that the Afghani people are a historical melange of … Continue reading The Power of Syncretism
Victory has many Parents while Defeat is an Orphan
Has anyone noticed how government is very fast to claim responsibility in victory and how in defeat or in the face of a setback they say “We’re all in this together”? Because I have. It has occurred to me that victory has many parents among the government, the elite, the establishment, as well as among … Continue reading Victory has many Parents while Defeat is an Orphan
The Duelists
More than 40 years ago, back when Ridley Scott had access to its unfettered faculties, he directed a great flick: The Duelists (1977). It featured two great actors of our age, Harvey Keitel and Keith Carradine. The Movie: The Bonapartist mad dog Feraud a.k.a. Fournier alias Fournier-Sarlovèze or Harvey Keitel v. the Aristocrat d'Hubert a.k.a. … Continue reading The Duelists
Animus in consulendo liber
https://youtu.be/1wtY9N-_X9A?si=uYHFt1nDk7Vs3fCG I admire tenacity above all things. I feel it brings the best in people and peoples. It separates mice from men. The life of Emperor-Stoic Philosopher Marcus Aurelius is testament of a Man who Soldiered on against all odds. Life threw every trial, tribulation and ailment at him. And still he defiantly woke up … Continue reading Animus in consulendo liber
Belisarius’ Gothic Tears
Belisarius was the last of Romans. He was a Byzantine General who restored much of Rome’s vanished glory in the 6th century, half a century after it had gone bust in the West. He was one of Justinian’s best generals. Together or in spite of his cohort/frenemy Narses the Eunuch, he attempted and succeeded in … Continue reading Belisarius’ Gothic Tears
On Genocide
History is too complicated for so many people. After all, if even famous film directors like Ridley Scott get away with imbecilic remarks, what can one expect from the rank and file?! Fact is that in the last 75 years, the Jewish diaspora has evaporated from Arab countries. 99.8 percent are gone. At the same … Continue reading On Genocide
Götterdämmerung 