[EL] Confounded by Breyer

[Steve Hoersting]

I have been working on a novel, Partisan. Here it the first 40th:

http://www.amazon.com/Partisan-Stephen-Hoersting-ebook/dp/B00H0PMC68/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1397907816&sr=8-1&keywords=hoersting+partisan

One character is a Supreme Court Justice (to be debuted in a future
section) of whom I expected readers to say "is too far fetched. No Justice
believes that." Then J. Breyer issues his cry for "collective speech" and
darn near scoops me.

I should note that the term neoconservative, in the book's description, has
nothing to do with Judaism. It has to do with Platonists in the Republican
party too willing to conscript citizens for massive, collective
undertakings -- international and domestic -- with little to no concern for
individual cost.

The book is structured, as an homage, around the rock song, Tom Sawyer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANiaZvdGO8U


I believe the song's lyrics are an Aristotelian twist on the classic Mark
Twain character and the characteristic that defines him: Tom Sawyer’s
ability to get others to do what he thinks they should do. *Betcha can’t
paint that fence....*


The song is about a purposeful man of moral ambition out to change the
world.  He surrounds himself with the political vanguard and works inside
the system to defeat the things they stand for, the things defeating the
world: mysticism, statist myth, and cultural drift.


He wages philosophic war (symbolized by the musical break in the middle of
the song), employs wit, an individualistic spirit, and the spit of
argumentation to create a *new* vanguard; one for freedom this time, for
rationality, a defense of markets and the rule of law.


When he feels he has accomplished his mission, he exits the battlefield.
He knows no change is permanent; that future generations must also fight to
retain their freedom.  Still he returns to civil society: to trading goods
in a free market; to the simple frictions of day-to-day living.


The song’s line, “the world is the world,” is an expression of Aristotle’s
statement of the law of identity, A is A.

I hope you enjoy the book,

-- 
Stephen M. Hoersting
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