Political Primer 1: Cicero, That Dead Guy
The Presidential election is humming right along, even though there aren’t any official candidates yet. Okay, it looks like McCain is a candidate, but I rarely count Republicans. Anyway, with the avalanche of bullshit about to come flooding at us from those that wish to rule the free world, I thought it important to arm you against their insanity. In order to do that, we need to go all the way back to Rome, 2000 years ago.
Cicero was not only a Roman Lawyer and sidekick to Brutus, but he was also a teacher of Rhetoric, he taught people how to argue. (As a side note, that “wising up the average guy” is what got him killed.) Cicero claimed that any argument only had four possible turning points. But I don’t care about the first three here, the last of them is “Jurisdiction”. He said that the last question we need to worry about is whether or not the people we’re arguing with actually have any authority, or right, to handle the problem being presented.
I mention this because, lots of promises will soon be made by people that want you to give them an incredible amount of power. Make sure that they have the authority to live up to those promises before you hand over the keys. Make the Dead Roman Lawyer Proud.
Tune in tomorrow for a brief discussion of U.S. Government.
