The secret of happiness...
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fajrdrakoThe secret of happiness is freedom; the secret of freedom, courage. - Thucydides (History of the Peloponnesian War)
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Date: 2007-12-20 07:46 pm (UTC)It saddens me that there seems to be a lot of timidity going on these days ... from recent statements calling on mothers to forbid their children from digging snow tunnels to the War on Terror and Drugs in North America generally. If there is courage, it seems to be woefully misplaced -- how else to describe the messes in Iraq and Afghanistan?
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Date: 2007-12-21 04:13 am (UTC)Depends on who you look at. Looking around the world today, I don't see many people like Leonidas of Sparta. Do they exist?
It saddens me that there seems to be a lot of timidity going on these days ...
Yes, me too. As if "safety" is the only real value. Risk-taking is discouraged... but also glorified in movies like "Die Hard" and the James Bond movies.
Maybe it's another of those things that is cyclical.