Having grown up with Batman on TV (and the Professor), I have an aversion to “hero”.
That said, an intellectual from the early 20th, to whom I can relate, wrote (concerning Empire):
“The alternative is to hold on to them with ever-lessening force, till the anarchy is too expensive, and we let go.”
T. E. Lawrence
The more I find out about him, the more relevant he seems. As if he had studied, and lived with, the people that he was discussing.
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As if he had studied, and lived with, the people that he was discussing.
Well, yeah. Didn’t you know?
Read his description of Syria and Lebanon in the Seven Pillars of Wisdom, and you will never trust anything the MSM says again.
A hundred years later and he is still a better guide.