Most of us may have quoted parts of Eisenhower’s Farewell Address to the Nation on January 17, 1961. In our current times, it seems appropriate to share the complete address. — kenne
Becoming is Superior to Being I come closest to succeeding by sharing.
A Few of Kenne’s Photos (Click on any image to see in slideshow)
Mountain Spiny Lizard
Ed On Marshell Gulch Trail
Chase & Grandma Joy
Carpenter bee on sneezeweed
Southern California September 2012
Turkey Vulture at Tanque Verde Wash
Doves, Lightening, Hiking
Queen Butterfly
Audrey, Joy, Hannah and Kenne
La Milagrosa Loop Hikers
SCVN Weds Walk 08-01-12
Sycamore Reservoir
Domingo DeGrazia’s Spanish-guitar band
Kate and Jaxon
Virginia & Jim At The Hunter Trail Saddle
All Souls Procession
Queen Butterfly
Cactus Wren
Friday with Friends & Molino Basin to Prison Camp
Queen Butterfly
Flickr Photos
Thanks, Kenne, for re-blogging this. I think we need that reminder that there can be decency in politics after all.
As intended, I think, a reminder of how our public civic virtues and the expression of them have changed. For many decades this speech has been remembered with the shorthand of Ike’s warning about the “Military-Industrial complex.” This a long speech, but that was one of the two points that Ike himself wanted to highlight as what we now call a “take away”. But here’s what I found interesting. There was another point he equally wanted to emphasize: a worry that research and intellectual curiosity itself would be dragooned into existing only from of government contracts. He says in that section:
“Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.”
Odd, the two big things just over the horizon in lifetime I’ve lived from Ike to now were the eventual restructuring of the two big Communist nations that were the big bad in his and most of the country’s outlook, and the rise of near ubiquitously connected personal computing devices. Those once hundreds of “new electronic computers” are now uncountably numerous and widespread, in nearly every home and hand.