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Republican Values: Gus Kotka and Johnny Reb On Our Way Fork

2/26/2017

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PictureGus Kotka and Johnny Reb OOW Paths




Part 10 of 13
 
“What do you make of this fork Reb?”
“Not much.”
“Which way is our way?”
“Both Gus.”
“Both?”
“Right.”
“Are we splitting up?”
“No.”
“Well two paths and two of us?”
“We’re staying together Gus.”
“Good.”
“Either path leads to where we’re going.”
“Virginia?”
“Constitutional representation.”
“Of We the People.”
“According to our numbers.”
“Thirty Thousand.”
“You got it Gus.”
“Which way though, you know, to Berryville?”
“Let’s move up and take a closer look.”
“Alright Reb.”

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​“Better.”
“Still a fork and a question.”
“Both work Yank.”
“How?”
“Nuance.”
“New what.”
“Nuance – it means subtle difference.”
“So both ways lead to the same place.”
“Yes.”
“What is the nuance then?”
“Who is going to talk first?”
“About the usurpation?”
“Correct.”
“So the fork isn’t about you and me Reb.”
“No Gus.”
“Well let’s move forward and look.”
“Sure.”

PictureGus Kotka and Johnny Reb OOW Birthright




​“Who is the fork for Johnny?”
“Usurpers.”
“President?”
“Yes.”
“Senators?”
“Yes.”
“Representatives?”
“Yes.”
“Governors?”
“You got it Yank.”
“Usurpers took our birthright, didn’t they Johnny.”
“They did.”
“Our very American birthright to constitutional representation.”
“Uniquely American Gus.”
“According to our numbers.”
“The birthright of We the People.”

*Next Up: 5 March and part 11 of Republican Values: Gus Kotka and Johnny Reb On Our Way Birthright.
 
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Republican Values: Gus Kotka and Johnny Reb On Our Way Er

2/19/2017

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PictureJohnny Reb and Gus Kotka OOW Resurrection

​Part 9 of 13
 
 
 
 

“It’s a story Gus.”
“Great!”
“Shall we walk and talk?”
“On our way time ‘eh?”
“Time.”
“Okay – but what’s Er?”
“A soldier.”
“So what did Er do?”
“Lots.”
“Like what?”
“Resurrection.”
“Rise again?”
“So sayeth Plato.”
“Plato ends The Republic with a resurrection story?”
“Plato does.”
“What happened?”
“There was a battle and Er fell on the field.”
“Okay.”
“Ten days later they find the battlefield.”
“Yikes.”
“Right, ’cept Er’s body is not decayed.”
“Irrational.”
“Plato then says that two days later, while on the funeral pyre, Er comes back to life.”
“Jesus.”

PictureGus Kotka and Johnny Reb OOW Afterlife








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​“Right Yank.”
“But before Jesus.”
“By 350 years.”
“That’s like from Columbus to our time Johnny.”
“True.”
“Does Er just scare ‘em?”
“He tells the people of his soul’s journey.”
“To where?”
“Afterlife.”
“The dead?”
“Yes, and the newly to be born.”
“Both?”
“It’s a long journey Gus.”
“What was Plato up to Johnny?”
“Order again.”
“So Er saw Judgement Day.”
“Others, not his.”
“Okay: so?”
“It was a big deal to Plato.”
“Why?”

PictureGus Kotka and Johnny Reb OOW Necessity







​“Cosmos.”
“Explaining good government wasn’t enough.”
“Plato wanted to explain it all.”
“Plato wanted to replace Athena.”
“Hey there is a goddess.”
“Where?”
“Necessity.”
“The mother of all invention is a goddess?”
“She is and she concludes Plato’s Republic.”
“I knew it.”
“Knew what?”
“Goddesses.”
“They’re resilient.”
“Like fate.”
“Plato would agree Yank.”
“Go figure. Hey there’s a fork ahead Johnny.”
“There sure is.”
 
 
*Next Up: 26 February and part 10 of Republican Values: Gus Kotka and Johnny Reb On Our Way Fork.
 
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Republican Values: Gus Kotka and Johnny Reb On Our Way Good

2/12/2017

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PictureJohnny Reb and Gus Kotka OOW Feeling

​Part 8 of 13
 
 
 



“The Good Gus.”
“Isn’t that a feeling Reb?”
“Probably.”
“Plato doesn’t like feelings.”
“He liked The Good.”
“I suppose Gladys and Spoon liked The Good too Reb.”
“Spirited people for sure.”
“Feelings they had.”
“Of course Yank.”
“Plato must have defined this Good.”
“He tried.”
“Got a quote?”
“Sure.”
“Let’s hear it.”
“One on Goodness Gus.”
“Perfect.”
“Here goes: ‘The summit of the intelligible world is reached in philosophic discussion by one who aspires, through the discourse of reason unaided by any of the senses, to make his way in every case to the essential reality and perseveres until he has grasped by pure intelligence the very nature of Goodness itself. This journey is what we call Dialectic.’”

PictureJohnny Reb and Gus Kotka OOW Alive





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​“That’s Plato?”
“From The Republic.”
“That’s us Reb.”
“Us?”
“Yeah.”
“How?”
“‘Through discourse of reason unaided by any of the senses.’”
“That does sound like us Gus.”
“Surprising.”
“Spirit.”
“That’s why it’s us Johnny.”
“We’re alive via our death.”
“And discoursing unaided by any of our senses.”
“I hear you Gus – a thing unaided by any sense would be dead.”
“So this senseless journey Plato called Dialectic?”
“True.”
“Was Plato talking about the dead?”
“He meant the living.”
“Plato posited humans that don’t feel while journeying?”
“Yes.”
“That would be a Journey of the Dead.”
​“Nice Gus.”
“Humans are truly senseless when dead Johnny.”

PictureJohnny Reb and Gus Kotka OOW Again


“One can’t think without sensing.”
“True.”
“One can’t speak without sensing.”
“True again.”
“Or act without sensing.”
“I see why Plato’s Republic didn’t work.”
“No Freedom and Senseless Humans (The Dead) in control.”
“Quite a republic.”
“Certainly.”
“We bring Plato to life Reb.”
“’Cuz we aspire Gus.”
“We do.”
“And persevere.”
“Often.”
“And we discuss.”
“Talking is what we do best.”
“Well let’s discuss the ending of Plato’s Republic before we go.”
“Sun’s setting.”
“Right.”
“How does it end Johnny?”
“With Er.”
“With her?”
“Er.”
“Er?”
 
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*Next Up: 19 February and part 9 of Republican Values: Gus Kotka and Johnny Reb On Our Way Er.
 
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Republican Values: Gus Kotka and Johnny Reb On Our Way Meaning

2/5/2017

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PictureJohnny Reb and Gus Kotka OOW Herd

Part 7 of 13





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​“Meaning.”
“Like I said Reb, what would Mr. Plato not like about this place?”
“I meant 'meaning' Gus, sort of what people make of things – how they think.”
“Freedom.”
“Yes.”
“Think, Speak and Act Reb.”
“Right.”
“Plato was against thinking?”
“He wasn’t Gus.”
“So what’s up then?”
“The Guardians were to form a single family.”
“Huh?”
“Like a herd.”
“You mean like selecting a bull and a cow to be together?”
“Correct.”
“No way.”
“Yes way.”
“Why?”
“If you let individuals select a mate, they will sometimes choose unwisely.”
“To each their own.”
“Not in Plato’s Republic.”

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​“Quite a place.”
“It never worked.”
“I see why.”
“Places like this are tempting.”
“Of course.”
“How often did we think of home Gus?”
“Endlessly.”
“That’s what Plato feared.”
“He feared feelings Johnny.”
“Yes.”
“Which is why he didn’t like poets.”
“True.”
“What could Guardians have?”
“They were to have all things in common.”
“Sounds like a Guardian Church Johnny.”
“Same spirit.”
“Community then.”
“The whole over the individual Yank.”
“Makes Plato’s pyramid.”
“Exactly.”




PictureJohnny Reb and Gus Kotka OOW State





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​“And the interests of the State were atop this pyramid?”
“Correct.”
“What about the children Johnny?”
“For Gladys and Lee?”
“In general.”
“Children were to be held in common too.”
“Meaning?”
“No Guardian was to know their child; no Guardian child was to know their parents.”
“Nuts.”
“Agreed.”
“Why do that?”
“Unity.”
“For?”
“Fealty to State and not family.”
“Sounds like submission to me.”
“The State first Gus.”
“What’s the good in that Reb?”
 
 
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*Next Up: 12 February and part 8 of Republican Values: Gus Kotka and Johnny Reb On Our Way Good.
 
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