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What were the last words of the country’s revered first president, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk?...
The final thoughts of the statesman, who governed the Czechoslovak Republic from 1918 to 1935, are believed to have been recorded by his son Jan Masaryk just before his death in September 1937 and have been sealed in a letter ever since, according to Czech public radio, which has set up a special section of its website to cover the opening of the envelope on Friday.
When Jan Masaryk died under suspicious circumstances just days after the Communist coup in 1948 he left the letter to his secretary, Antonín Sum. Sum smuggled it out of the country, which had become a Soviet satellite state in the aftermath of World War II.Sum and Lumír Soukup, another former personal secretary of Jan Masaryk, kept the letter safe for decades before donating it to the Czech National Archive in 2005 on the condition that it remain sealed for 20 years....
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UPDATE: From what I'm seeing right now the letter says: "If people are uneducated and foolish, you can't do much about it. People like to be foolish, but don't make it easy for them. Argue with them."
AND: I took the text of the letter from a Czech language X account, which has this interesting Czech description: "Nevtipný, satirický, sarkastický, cynický, parodický fakenews blogísek." That auto-translates to: "An unfunny, satirical, sarcastic, cynical, parody fakenews bloglet." That might suggest that the quote isn't really from the letter. I await further info.
Commenting on Masaryk's letter, that X account says, auto-translated: "Once the voters of SPD, ANO, and the communists chew through this quote, they will surely appropriate it and claim it speaks to their souls. Because they will never realize that they are precisely the uneducated fools, as evidenced by the graphs of electoral preferences based on the level of education attained, the absence of critical thinking, lack of empathy, minimal perspective, and their media illiteracy."
BUT: I love the word sarkastický.
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He would not have been surprised by the CAGW scam.
Last night I told the Omaha Public Power District that their net zero policy was foolish.
Drink more Ovaltine.
The only clip of Charlie Kirk I've heard is him being unnecessarily mean. You'd think such a famous nice guy would at least be nicer than I am.
Robert Wright and Glenn Loury podcast
Drink more Ovaltine.
LOL!
rhhardin said...
The only clip of Charlie Kirk I've heard is him being unnecessarily mean. You'd think such a famous nice guy would at least be nicer than I am.
Robert Wright and Glenn Loury podcast
Are you saying Kirk should be nice to black women who were given opportunities nobody else got and who used those opportunities to trash people who were better than them in ever way who they took those opportunities from?
Kirk is nicer than you are.
If our new AI overlords toss out more words like agog I'm all for it.
It's not a moral failing on the womens' part. Offer instead that satisfaction in life comes from doing something for others in a job that you're good at and the trick is finding that job.
It's a fiduciary failing on the part of the bosses. Even then you can phrase it nicely.
Masaryk was an important guy outside of Czechoslovakia, among other things vis a vis the modern concept of sovereignty. He brought Herders "Volksgeist" to practical life, as a justification for national independence, or popularized it anyway. I think Sabino Arana got in earlier but got much less attention, and it took much longer for Aranas ideas to manifest. But in any case since 1918 dozens of countries have used this to justify their idependence from former empires.
The modern concept of sovereignty and legitimacy depends on the popular will, and that depends on the Volksgeist, the shared spirit or consensus regarding identity. One can characterize the current Russian invasion of Ukraine, for instance, as an attempt to suppress the Ukrainian Volksgeist, or the Chinese desire to conquer Taiwan likewise, vs the newly developed Taiwan Volksgeist.
The concept of the volksgeist is ubiquitous in US politics, though the term is never used. Thats why you have Black nationalists and Chicano nationalists, and the various white/conservative movements are soaked in it. Radical feminism is also very much a volksgeist thing, though more incoherent than most.
Leland beat me to it. Well played, Sir.
Made you look.
This whole thing reminds of Geraldo and Al Capone vault. Talk about a nothing burger. Its amazing how the Liberal/left never changes. In 1938, we were supposed to start WW 2 to protect "the poor Little Czechs", "Democracy was in peril".
Chamberlin has sold them out. Oh the humanity!
Then in 1948, the USSR took over, and it was "The Czechs will lose their Democracy. Yawn. So sad. Pass the marmalade".
Notice how the world savers and Democrats have stopped screeching about "Putin wants to conquer the world!!" and "Poor little Ukraine". What changed? Maybe October 7th, forced them to focus on what really matters. Or maybe they just got a new party line to squawk out.
20 years? "The final thoughts of the statesman, who governed the Czechoslovak Republic from 1918 to 1935, are believed to have been recorded by his son Jan Masaryk just before his death in September 1937 and have been sealed in a letter ever since"
That's 88 years.
Czechs agog? Zut Alors!
"Then in 1948, the USSR took over, and it was "The Czechs will lose their Democracy. Yawn. So sad. Pass the marmalade".
What a piece of shit you are.
For what its worth, I am not addressing the depraved animal known as RCOCEAN. The world is vast and there are peoples other than those mixed up in smelly US politics.
actually they did lose their democracy, there was a brief spring in 1968, that Andropov the future kgb chief, who Time magazine loved because he played jazz records, helped crush,it took 500,000 men half from other warsaw countries, and some three months to suppress the revolt
the Soviets used the catspaw of Slovak nationalist, a character named Durcanski, an associate of Tiso, to pull of the coup, Durcanski, conveniently defected to Argentina,
this bit came from John Loftus, a one time OSI investigator who was regarded with a gimlet eye by others in the office, like my friend clarice
He said "Epstein Didn't Kill Himself"
If they're anything like the Czechs I know, it's more like Czechs a-grog, because they've been working all day and they have a powerful thirst.
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