> Though the words blood and soil have been degraded in our time by degraded men, their concrete realities pervade the archaic tradition and come down to us today even in the inflated stereotypes of patriotism and nationalism.
Terrible that #ForsaKeN #Nazi #AzovBattalion coopted #RedAndBlack for #BloodAndSoil. #YetAnotetherExample #YAE of #CorruptioOptimiPessima #COPessima. #AmReading #LewisMumford in #TransformationOfMan to see why it irritates me so much. #TToM #人間の変成 #人間過去現在未来 #マンフォード

> “The Powers are good. The Powers are fallen. The Powers must be redeemed.”

- https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/transformation/transforming-powers-continuing-relevance-of-walter-wink/

#WalterWInk #corruptioOptimiPessima #ThePowers

> The problems of education are merely reflections of the deepest problems of our age. They cannot be solved by... the expenditure of money ...Education which fails to clarify our central convictions.. the disorder will grow worse. Education , far from...man’s greatest resource, will then be an agent of destruction, in accordance with the principle corruptio optimi pessima...
- http://www.fearofnature.com/small-is-beautiful-economics-as-if-people-mattered-schumacher

#corruptioOptimiPessima #SmallIsBeautiful #EFSchumacher #education