Letter from Slim Wolfe
Health – May 2005 – Colorado Central Magazine
Editors:
“To fit in with the change of events, words, too, had to change their usual meanings. What used to be described as a thoughtless act of aggression was now regarded as the courage one would expect in a party member; to think of the future and wait was merely another way of saying one was a coward; any idea of moderation was just an attempt to disguise one’s unmanly character; ability to understand a question from all sides meant that one was totally unfitted for action…”
So much has changed in the 2400 years since Thucydides wrote these words that he would probably see today’s humans as malevolent godlings hurling thunderbolts of depleted uranium and riding on fearsome chariots, but his assessment of humans seems to hold true.
