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Study of the Hegemony of Parasitism - michaeljgoodnight.com

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In "The Greek Way", Edith Hamilton says, "Tragedy was<br />

a Greek creation because in Greece thought was free."<br />

We do not have tragedy today because <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> thought<br />

control imposed by <strong>the</strong> World Order. Instead, we have<br />

"Newspeak" and "doublethink" in <strong>the</strong> world <strong>of</strong> 1989. I was<br />

privileged to sit in on a number <strong>of</strong> conversations between<br />

Edith Hamilton and Ezra Pound, in which <strong>the</strong><br />

conversation was uninhibited and far-reaching -- freedom<br />

<strong>of</strong> thought in a federal institution in which one <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

talkers was held as a political prisoner! Pound describes<br />

<strong>the</strong>se talks in "The Cantos",<br />

"And <strong>the</strong>y want to know what we talked about?”<br />

“de litteris et de armis, praestantibusque ingeniis."<br />

Nietzsche also discoursed on "tragic pleasure", which no<br />

longer exists, because <strong>the</strong> World Order, in its anxiety to<br />

maintain control <strong>of</strong> every aspect <strong>of</strong> our lives, has banned<br />

passion. As a poor substitute, it gives us drugs and<br />

degeneracy.<br />

There are many facts in this book which you, <strong>the</strong> reader,<br />

will not wish to accept. I ask you to accept nothing, but to<br />

make your own investigations. You may find even more<br />

astonishing true facts than I have managed to glean in<br />

thirty-five years <strong>of</strong> intensive and in-depth research.<br />

Finally, we have Edith Hamilton's rendering <strong>of</strong> Socrates'<br />

most notable admonition, "Agree with me if I seem to you<br />

to speak <strong>the</strong> truth; or, if not, withstand me might and<br />

main that I may not deceive you as well as myself in my

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