[EL] Confounded by Breyer

[Steve Hoersting]

I have been told the link to the song doesn't work. Try this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auLBLk4ibAk


On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 8:05 AM, Steve Hoersting <hoersting at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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Stephen M. Hoersting
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