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hekatologos 0920
Martin Helick (rmhelick@telerama.lm.com)
20 Oct 1996 15:56:08 -0400
0920 Tri fodain nach seachaintear: fod na geine, fod na bhais,
fod na adhnacail. Three places that you cannot avoid: the place
of your birth, the place of your death, the place of your burial.
In America, an inauspicious birth has always been a challenge to
be met rather than a burden to be borne. And yet throughout the
land we see a vast underclass, perhaps not as physically disadvan-
taged but in some ways as demoralized and culturally alienated as
the subproletariet of czarist Russia. Some call for counseling and
enlightened welfare, some for benign neglect. But what if both are
wrong, what if the problem is cultural rather than economic, sys-
temic rather than cyclic? What then of our system of values, the
Bill of Rights and all the rest of it, as venal and short-sighted
ing politicians struggle to choose between the lunacy of institu-
tionalized anarchy and the horror of institutionalized restraint?
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Accordingly, two cities have been formed by two loves; the earthly
by the love of self, even to the contempt of God, the heavenly
by the love of God, even to the contempt of self. [civ.dei xiv-28]
gravitas..........hekatologos..........http://www.lm.com/~rmhelick
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