11-08-2020, 07:26 AM
Eric, people have overcome all sorts of handicaps. One of our conventional three greatest Presidents was a cripple. That cripple gave America the sort of leadership that, at the time of that cripple's death, allowed the US Army within a short distance of the bunker of an enemy who had mocked the ability of America to wage war because the President needed a wheelchair and braces. Homer wrote or dictated the Iliad and the Odyssey despite blindness. The great organist Helmut Walcha was blind, and at the end of his life, so was the great conductor Arturo Toscanini. That's before I discuss people transcending poverty, ethnic and religious oppression, mental illness, and addictions.
Can people overcome their 'stars'? If people can overcome something so horrible as heroin, can't they find ways to frustrate the 'stars'?
Can people overcome their 'stars'? If people can overcome something so horrible as heroin, can't they find ways to frustrate the 'stars'?
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.