Sunday, April 21, 2013

A favorite 'ideal' that bolsters Republican compliance with the NRA is this.

"Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge."


That is a quote from the Founder of the Academy in Athens, Greece.

Imagine that, the Right Wing Nuts of the country have a real affection for a Greek.

It is estimated he lived to be eighty years old. He knew nothing of guns because he was born between 428 and 427 BC. He died of natural causes somewhere between 348 and 347 BC.

We was a student of Socrates, a philosopher, but was a mathematician by trade. He had a student by the name of Aristotle.

He believed in many deity, but, if the shoe fits the NRA by all means wear it.

In regard to the statement above he believed reason, will and and desires united in virtuous harmony. He believed in a rightly ordered human. A government could not produce laws that would result in a harmonious society as each human in that society had to be in order to bring about the final result.

The he here is Plato. The picture of him above has him pointing to the heavens.

Dialogues of Plato (click here)

His philosophy about how people have to be rightly ordered falls in line with the NRA endorsements of mental health criteria. Plato's philosophy about the failure of governance speaks less to his understanding of law and governing, but, to his rebellion against the Greek hierarchy which he believed never ruled well.

I learned about the passsions of Plato and the GOP from a Right Wing Talk Show.

Yep. The Right Ordered Human. Standardized. Right. Can I order one now, I need a housekeeper?

The Right Ordered Human cast 45 votes against background checks. Okay then.