Simple Gifts

Book four of Paradise Lost is STUNNING in its profundity and psychological insight, not to mention the sheer beauty of Milton's poetic imagination. For any familiar with C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia, the literary influence is crystal clear, as Satan approaches the walled garden, the paradiso, of Eden, and climbs the wall, disdaining the gate, as does Jadis in The Magician's Nephew. We should pay particular attention to Milton's psychological portrait of Satan, the deliberate choice of evil, the acknowledgment of good and the desire to spoil it, the regret and pain in knowing himself a parasite on all the goodness and blessedness of creation, the arrogance and pain in knowing himself a diminished being as he confronts those "lesser" angels who are now his betters, as he chose his own will over that of his Creator. As Lewis says in The Great Divorce, "there are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, ... 'thy will be done.' All that are in hell choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no hell." Satan here acknowledges this when he says, "Evil, be now my good," and that in fleeing hell, he carried it with him, and all its attendant misery, as he is himself hell incarnate, the choice to exalt self over God.

Paradise Lost Book 4 Summary & Analysis | LitCharts

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Chapter 6, Sections 69 - 76

John Locke's Second Treatise of Government was thought by Thomas Jefferson one of the most important influences on his own political thinking, and while it is disputed, one of the most important philosophical voices in the formation of the United States and its founding documents.

As such, it is vital to Americans in these days to understand and know Locke's ideas. History is being rewritten at a level approaching the Doublethink of George Orwell, and we must know and proclaim the Truth, the ultimate safeguard of our liberties against the forces of tyranny.

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September 17, 1777, the US Constitution was signed by the delegates of the Constitutional Convention. For this reason, September is Constitution Month. 

The US Constitution is the oldest and shortest functioning Constitution in the world. Together with its amendments, it is arguably the most effective and successful Constitution in history. Regrettably, many US citizens are nearly completely ignorant of it.

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Book four of Paradise Lost is STUNNING in its profundity and psychological insight, not to mention the sheer beauty of Milton's poetic imagination. For any familiar with C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia, the literary influence is crystal clear, as Satan approaches the walled garden, the paradiso, of Eden, and climbs the wall, disdaining the gate, as does Jadis in The Magician's Nephew. We should pay particular attention to Milton's psychological portrait of Satan, the deliberate choice of evil, the acknowledgment of good and the desire to spoil it, the regret and pain in knowing himself a parasite on all the goodness and blessedness of creation, the arrogance and pain in knowing himself a diminished being as he confronts those "lesser" angels who are now his betters, as he chose his own will over that of his Creator. As Lewis says in The Great Divorce, "there are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, ... 'thy will be done.' All that are in hell choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no hell." Satan here acknowledges this when he says, "Evil, be now my good," and that in fleeing hell, he carried it with him, and all its attendant misery, as he is himself hell incarnate, the choice to exalt self over God.

Paradise Lost Book 4 Summary & Analysis | LitCharts

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C S Lewis said: "ANIMAL FARM is formally almost perfect; light, strong, balanced. There is not a sentence that does not contribute to the whole. The myth says all the author wants it to say and (equally important) it doesn't say anything else."

Lewis did not like 1984: "Tragedy demands a certain minimum stature in the victim; and the hero and heroine of 1984 do not reach that minimum.... In Animal Farm all this is changed. The greed and cunning of the pigs is tragic ... because we are made to care about all the honest, well-meaning, or even heroic beasts whom they exploit. The death of Boxer the horse moves us more than all the more elaborate cruelties of the other book. And not only moves, but convinces."

"One result is that the satire becomes more effective. Wit and humour (absent from the longer work) are employed with devastating effect. The great sentence 'All animals are equal but some are more equal than others' bites deeper than the whole of 1984. Thus the shorter book does all that the longer does. But it also does more. Paradoxically, when Orwell turns all his characters into animals he makes them more fully human."

Wokist totalitarianism is blossoming and colonizing every segment of our culture. Boxer and Winston will again suffer and die, unless we "wake up" from the Wokist dystopian dream.

It Is Time, SLEEPERS, [to] AWAKE!

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Chapter 6, Sections 61 - 68

John Locke's Second Treatise of Government was thought by Thomas Jefferson one of the most important influences on his own political thinking, and while it is disputed, one of the most important philosophical voices in the formation of the United States and its founding documents.

As such, it is vital to Americans in these days to understand and know Locke's ideas. History is being rewritten at a level approaching the Doublethink of George Orwell, and we must know and proclaim the Truth, the ultimate safeguard of our liberties against the forces of tyranny.

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One of the finest examples of oratory in history, this iconic speech was delivered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D. C. August 28th, 1963. I CANNOT do justice to Dr. King's delivery, which stands rooted in my memory.

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