So what's the use of our abuse?

Walter, think Plato, Aristotle. Plato wrote his Laws and Republic in response to the decay of his own society. Aristotle wrote his Politics for the same reason. Both, in effect, were desperate to reverse the degeneration of their homeland, Athens. They suffered similar emotional pain to ours; they could not reverse the decay. Enter the Macedonians and later the Romans. Nothing has changed since then. Classical study provides comforts like this.


"So what's the use of my abuse?

The world will run around the sun,

As it has done since time begun.

So what's the use of my abuse?"

- James Stephens, Irish Poet, Writer


The challenge is to stand clear of the debris when it the system comes crashing down. Think Ireland, land of saints and scholars, during the dark and middle ages. It has been done, and it can be done again.


Paul