O my worthy Sallust! (no irony here, just some supportive additions).
Quosque tandem abutere Catiline patientia nostra? (Catilina, how long will you abuse our patience?) NB: Misanthropicus is not a mighty latinist but oppressive schooling occasionally helps (rev. Wright wouldn’t go for this, some clapping and dancing swarms of kids will surely learn better/more than the dolts poring over some sooooo! irrelevant classic pages); also the school in cause had/has over the entrance gate a quite oppressive “Hic Docti Atque Bonni(?) Doceant” thing – for you to figure out who/why should be offended by that statement.
My good Sallust(ius), allow me channel Cicero’s best regards to you, Cicero who was in America during the Catilina turmoils, and who rightly attacked that early Obama with the above line which opens Cicero’s excellent (—-?? for Hanson this —-) which warns Americans about “[...] a demagogue who wants “money, power, and fame [...] the American demagogue Catiline who wanted to destroy the American Republic and the Senate [...] All dregs of society (MoveOn.Org members, insolvents, common criminals, liberals, whores, HuffPo incubi, etc.) united to his host of miscreants. All means were good to reach his goal, and no moral scruple could pull him up. Catiline, like now Obama that leads the host of dregs of American society, is one of an endless line of political adventurers, but all of them have and had a common believe that where others failed, they will [...]”
Sallust, good reminder for our times – and how I take the liberty to upgrade your description is by reminding Evan’s article readers that the ancient Catiline upheaval was followed by the Spartacus rebellion/upheaval.
Now, some will frown – wasn’t the Spartacus upheaval a super-superb thing? Kind of yes, kind of not, the answer is – THE CORRECT POSITING of Catilina’s (clearly a troublemaker/rabble rouser), and Spartacus’ actions should be done by rapporting their acts to the ways/views/practices & attitudes (gosh, I sound like Michelle Obama’s Princeton thesis) of the times/society they were living in, and this is actually the notion I want to lauch, O Sallust, from your Catiline post/trampoline.
I want to remind everyone that we live in an age & cult of a completely unwarranted Spartacus adulation (this early Che Guevara!) age & cult CREATED BY THE BOLCHEVICKSin the 20-s in Russia, then spread around the world by the communist Internationales of the 30-s and later which kept injecting and grafting the Spartacus’ inspiring legend (not that inspiring, actually), in any possible communism-serving/normalcy-destroying cultural & artistic representation (up to some quite sinister modern slavery manifestations – Kirk Douglas, Dalton Trumbo, remember the good old days of the Cold War? And the communist Spartakiades, in which cohorts of German, Russian, Romanian, Hungarian etc., terminally stereodized athlets were marching/performing & shortly dieing for the communism’s luminous future?
Very interesting, this Spartacus thing and how deviously it was spread around the world by the destructive left – unfortunately there are more than Tom Hayden, Ayres, Agee, Guss Hall, Elli Pariser, etc., etc., who wouldn’t accept the notion that the last shelter of a destructive, opportunistic political scoundrel is… Spartacus!
But since this Spartacus metastasis is a long story… O Sallust, my admirable friend! With Cassandra, Calhas ans Cicero watching us somberly, I still hope Bacchus, Aphrodite and Mercury hear my prayers and reward you abundantly with all what you deserve for your reminding us, fools numbed by prosperity and (apparent) safety, about the world’s folly and lurking perils – respectfully (and truly so), your best, Misanthropicus.
