[lit-ideas] Re: Anzio and the meaning of war

LH: Wars often, perhaps usually, decide things.
If they are decisive defeats they provide provisional decisions, which is the only type of decision humanity has really known ... unless freedom, democracy, and the value of the individual really have staying power.
I think you should consider my semi-serious "20 percent hold back the other 80 percent" thesis.
LH: Why would the Athenians want to attack the democratic Syracuse it in the middle of the Peloponnesian War?
That was Alcibiades, wasn't it? Clearly one of those 20 percent. A narcissistic goofball who forgot everything Socrates tried to teach him, 


Aspiring to rise above the 20 percent,
Eric
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