Listening to Johnson reciting The Iliad in Ancient Greek for 2 minutes is a useful reminder that comparisons to
are not only facile but way, way too flattering of the latterhttps://twitter.com/argonerd/status/1209107236825513984 …
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But I think there's a litmus test: it is still crystal clear who admires power vs. insight. So a lion is *defined* as someone whose actions draw the admiration of power-admirers, regardless of the particular form of their behaviors. So Jacksonian America is still "power" oriented
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Only a lion-admirer type could possibly admire an action like thishttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/24/climate/trump-bird-deaths.html …
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My memory of Pareto is vague but aren't foxes "co-opters" who believe in decentralization, pluralism and restraint in the use of force, whereas lions are authoritarians who rule through centralized, hierarchical bureaucracies, emphasizing unity, homogeneity & established ways?
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The byte is mightier than the pen.
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