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New Irish BLOGGER & Writer & Philosopher . Activist, a radical reformer, but Counter-Revolutionary. A ROUNDHEAD, neither Cavalier nor Leveller, a GIRONDIN, neither Ancien Regime, nor Jacobin, a TRUDOV(N)IK, neither Tzarist not Bolshevik. More Socratic than Aristotelian or Platonic. Chronic Refractory Night-Owl. Passionate explorer of people, places, periods, ideas.

Avid reader - only 1,745 books catalogued [ so far ] on www.librarything.com

Lover of dogs, red wine, good food, books, music, travel, history, philosophy, photography, aviation, space. And chronically and acutely Gyno-tropic and Gyno-philiac.

A supporter of Principled, Interventionist Internationalism, I believe in [a] strong, open UNIVERSAL democracy, its indivisible freedoms, culture, and heritage, and [b] total defeat of terrorist gangs, from Belfast to Bali, from Madrid to Basra, from Kabul to Haifa, from Manhattan to Istanbul, from Adare to Beirut, from Bogota to Tehran, from London to Beslan, from Casablanca to Karachi, and from Sinai to Mumbai.

Freedom is never free - you are either an ARMED Democrat, or else you become a Dead SLAVE. You back either the Arsonist or the Firefighter, the Drug Gang or the Drug Squad, the Suicide-bomber, or the Bomb Squad.

An Axio-Teleo- Zetetic, Tri-chotomic Tri-Lemma-ist, and Critical Realist, I reject the simplistic Dualistic Binary Di-Lemmas of tyranny or terror, pacifist neutrality or belligerent partiality, unrestricted market or statist monopoly, obscurantist fideism or arrogant rationalism, puritanical repression or porno obsession, moral absolutism or anarchic relativism, mindless hedonism or carno-phobic asceticism, individualism or collectivism, patri-archy or mis-andry, process or product, mind or body, culture or nature, cynical exploitation or naive optimism, which may be mutually exclusive dichotomies, but are certainly not collectively exhaustive options. The simple "Contradictory" [denial] is not the total "Contrary" [OPPOSITE in tendency, nature, positon, direction]. "Not-A" is not necessarily "Anti-A". Our interests and concerns do not define or determine the solution or the strategy. And the strategy does not define or determine the tactics. Re-frame the old, Closed Question, and you may begin to creat a new, Open Answer.
I believe in "Both-And", not "Either/Or", and in the "via media". I believe in the dynamic Virtuous Spiral, not the static Vicious Circle.

My political hero is Independent [de-selected veteran Democrat] Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman, elected surrounded by a sea of placards with "Firefighters for Lieberman".

14 Mottos: [1] Be the Hammer, or the Anvil - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832.
[2] What goes with the flow ? Dead fish - Dr. Roy Maurice Keane, born Mayfield, Cork City, Aug 10, 1971, ex-Capt of both Man Utd FC and Republic of Ireland, and now Manager, Sunderland FC.
[3] What begins in absurdity ends in atrocity.
[4] Life is for living and enjoying, not controlling or denying.
[5] Eternal vigilance is the price of Liberty - Edmund Burke, 1729-1797.
[6] I cherish, those 6 the words of the Ulster poet, Louis MacNeice, 1907-1963, **the drunkenness of things being various**
[7] Strenuus Pro Virili Libertatis Vindicator - Dean Jonathan Swift, 1667-1745.
[8] Nemo Nos Impune Lacessit [ no-one provokes us with impunity ] - RHF motto [ Royal Highland Fusliliers].
[9] Pote Paradidomai - I never surrender.
[10] Thaumazein esti arches tes sofias - to wonder is the beginning of wisdom - Aristotle, 384-322 BCE [Metaphysics]
[11] Ho de anexestatos Bios ou Biwtos Anthrwpou - the un-examined life is not worth living for humans - Socrates in the Apology of Plato, 427-347 BCE.
[12] They that sow in tears shall reap in joy - Tanakh-Hebrew Bible, Psalm 126, verse 5.
[13] Put not your trust in princes - Tanakh, Psalm 146, verse 3.
[14] The clouds are lies. They cannot last. The blue sky is the truth - William A. Studdert-Kennedy [ Woodbine Willy - WW I Chaplain ], 1883-1929.

I'm an INTP/ENTJ personality on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, a Type 8 [The Challenger] with elements of Type 5 [self-preservation], on the Enneagram, born in the Chinese Year of the Ox, and a Leo.