Along the same lines, here is Aragorn's rallying speech at the Black Gate in the final Lord of the Rings:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GgSdiX0kDI

Great videos, both.

There are two great non-equalities which are routinely assumed to be equal:

NOT (Government == Country):

Political Leaders are in charge of the Government, not the country.

NOT (West == The Left):

The failures we are seeing in foreign and domestic policy are the failures of leftism, not of the west and its heritage.

When I was growing up and going to Catholic School, we studied some of the Classics. We studied it as if our civilization depended on it. And then I was turned out to fend for myself in this thing called America that had no respect or memory of any of that. The last man I worked for who regularly wore a tie was an Indian immigrant back in 1989.

I think it impossible for you to point me to that place where the wise people run things. I would gladly go there. Where is that America? I think it's just here online.

Perhaps. But perhaps that's where it begins again.

Another superb piece by Bill W. The future just ain't what it used to be.

Gerarld: By way of rebuttal to Whittle's positive, reasoned view of technology and the future, perhaps you can post a link to this piece of weapons-grade stupidity, moral illiteracy and rhetorical overkill.

Before this is over, Ms. Sarah Palin is gonna deliver a speech that is the equivalent of her "St. Crispin's Day", and the right is going to rise up.

Laugh if you want, but I think she has already shown she is inside Obama's OODA loop, messing with him. Last week Sarah says "This is a war, not a crime spree", and this week Pinnochio finally says "We are at war..."

Mighty fine piece by Bill Whittle. Sending the link far and wide.

Stunning we would be moved so by such mere words, yet not so. We yet posses, in our heritage as American men who spoke similarly. "Whether this nation, or any nation so conceived shall long endure." Or "In our own native land, in defense of the freedom that is our birthright, and which we ever enjoyed till the late violation of it-for the protection of our property, acquired solely by the honest industry of our fore-fathers and ourself, against violence actually offered, we have taken up arms. We shall lay them down when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, and all danger of their being renewed shall be removed, and not before."

I agree Aquila but stupidity is so wide spread and so deep you'd have to put up six scrolling screens of links just to keep up.

Still, that item is a fine example.

I think it impossible for you to point me to that place where the wise people run things. I would gladly go there. Where is that America? I think it's just here online. When I was growing up and going to Catholic School, we studied some of the Classics. We studied it as if our civilization depended on it. And then I was turned out to fend for myself in this thing called America that had no respect or memory of any of that. The last man I worked for who regularly wore a tie was an Indian immigrant back in 1989.