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“If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it.”*…

Stoicism is having a moment. The estimable Timothy Snyder considers the events of the day in the light of Marcus Aurelius‘ thoughts– and actions…

As Donald Trump announced his whimsy war in Iran, I was reading about another imperial campaign, long ago, against an Iranian people.

In the late second century AD, the Roman Empire confronted armies that had crossed the border at the Danube River and even broached the Alps in northern Italy. Among them were the Iazyges, speakers of an Iranian language, who hailed from the Ukrainian steppe.

In Ukraine this February, I was learning about an archaeological find which reveals the interactions of the Romans and the Iazyges, which included alliance as well as enmity. The Roman war against the Iazyges allies was commanded personally by Emperor Marcus Aurelius, who spent the years between 171 and 180 AD at the front. During that time he kept a philosophical diary, probably written at night in his tent. Discovered after his death, that text, known as the Meditations, is a great work of Stoic philosophy.

I turned to the Meditations to see if I could learn anything that would help me to understand the work of Ukrainian archaeologists about the interactions between Romans and Iazyges. I found something else: perspective on the wars of today, and a sense of why, beyond his obvious incompetence in military matters, Trump had to lose his.

It was shaming to read the bombast of Trump: (”no president was willing to do what I have done tonight”) alongside the reflections of Marcus (“when things have such a plausible appearance, show them naked, see their shoddiness, strip away their own boastful account of themselves.”) Trump broadcast his arrogance to millions of people; Marcus wrote for himself.

Despite the fact he was commanding an army at the front, Marcus never mentioned the war in his Meditations. War was simply something he had to do; he had no difficulty seeing the other side as people, or understanding their motivations. He mentions the Iazyges only once in the text: to make a broader point about hubris, to suggest that it was wrong for Romans to take pride in taking a prisoner of war.

Although Marcus did not broach the subject of my interest, I could not stop reading his Meditations. The contrast with Trump’s utterances was astounding, and vertiginous. The one could spend nine years in command and write a philosophical diary in which he did not even mention the war; the other immediately leapt to praise himself for a war he would lose in weeks…

[With an focus on the “adventure in Iran,” Snyder elaborates the (painfully unflattering) comparison…]

… The American leaders had no idea of who they were or what they wanted, aside from the satisfaction of their emotional needs by the killing of others. They were unable to imagine that people on the other side might have ideas about their own interests and plans for their own behavior. The could not see the world, even in its plainest representation as geography; whereas Marcus exploited a bend in the Danube River to tactical advantage to win a battle; Trump chose to ignore the physical limit the Straits of Hormuz can place on world trade. As soon as the war began, the Iranians did the obvious: they responded to American long-range attacks with the same; and they blocked the Straits.

Because the Americans were operating without a sense of themselves, of the world, or other people, this came as a surprise. Marcus Aurelius offers this mild comment: “How absurd — and a complete stranger to the world– is the man surprised at any aspect of his experience in life!”

The Americans, strangers to the world, reacted to their feelings of surprise with fantasies of destruction. The pleasure they took in killing became a vision of annihilation. Rather than confront the errors they made about war, the Americans leapt to visions of violence in which no one would ever have to think again. Trump lost control on Easter Sunday when he tweeted: “Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell.” He then promised that he would bomb Iran “back to the Stone Age, where they belong” and said that “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” In our modern legal and ethical language, this is of course genocidal language. The American bombast was followed by American surrender.

Marcus Aurelius won his war against the Iazyges. He combined victory and prudence, and for this he was and will be remembered. The defeated Iazyges returned to their previous role as Roman clients, offered thousands of cavalrymen as soldiers of Rome, and opened trade routes to the east. Marcus’s philosophical diary has been read for the better part of two millenia; so long as we are present as a literate civilization, it will be read. Despite Marcus’s certainty that we will all be forgotten, others built a victory column in his honor after his death; it still stands in Rome, more than one thousand eight hundred years later.

Another legacy of Marcus’s victory also touches the center of what we think of as Western culture. As part of the peace accord, he dispatched 5,500 Iazyges cavalrymen, taken into his service, to the north of what is now northern England, to defend the Roman border at Hadrian’s Wall. Their first commander was a man named Arthur, and it is possible that the Iazyges and some of their Iranian-speaking kin incorporated his name into stories of their own — of a lady in the lake, of a sword in a stone, of a quest for a golden cup — which, with time, became the legend of Christian chivalry. That is another story, and one worth telling.

But it is also part of the story of Marcus Aurelius, which, despite the fact that he chose not to tell it himself, or rather precisely for that reason, is instructive about our predicament today. Stoicism is a way not to be a stranger to the world; it can protect the powerful from vanity and folly. To fall into a stupor of self-absorption, as Trump has done, is to flee from reality. Few wars are worth fighting; those that are fought can only be won in the world, and not within the tortured confines of estranged minds. Trump hastens now towards our shared horizon of death, seeking honors that only posterity can accord and will not…

On what Trump could– and should– learn from Marcus Aurelius: “Of Stoicism and Stupor,” from @timothysnyder.bsky.social.

“We are the other of the other”

“Ask yourself at every moment, ‘Is this necessary?”

“Kindness is invincible.”

– Marcus Aurelius

(TotH to MKM)

* Marcus Aurelius

###

As we barrel back to basics, we might recall that it was on this date in 1956 that Elvis Presley, working for the first time with  backing vocal group the Jordanaires, recorded “Don’t Be Cruel,” which had been written by Otis Blackwell. 

The single was released on July 13, 1956, backed with “Hound Dog.”  Within a few weeks “Hound Dog” had risen to No. 2 on the Pop charts with sales of over one million. Soon after it was overtaken by “Don’t Be Cruel,” which took No. 1 on all three main charts; Pop, Country, and R&B. Between them, both songs remained at No. 1 on the Pop chart for a run of 11 weeks. “Don’t Be Cruel” was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2002. In 2004, it was ranked No. 197 in Rolling Stone’s list of 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

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“If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it.”*…

Stoicism is having a moment. The estimable Timothy Snyder considers the events of the day in the light of Marcus Aurelius‘ thoughts– and actions…

As Donald Trump announced his whimsy war in Iran, I was reading about another imperial campaign, long ago, against an Iranian people.

In the late second century AD, the Roman Empire confronted armies that had crossed the border at the Danube River and even broached the Alps in northern Italy. Among them were the Iazyges, speakers of an Iranian language, who hailed from the Ukrainian steppe.

In Ukraine this February, I was learning about an archaeological find which reveals the interactions of the Romans and the Iazyges, which included alliance as well as enmity. The Roman war against the Iazyges allies was commanded personally by Emperor Marcus Aurelius, who spent the years between 171 and 180 AD at the front. During that time he kept a philosophical diary, probably written at night in his tent. Discovered after his death, that text, known as the Meditations, is a great work of Stoic philosophy.

I turned to the Meditations to see if I could learn anything that would help me to understand the work of Ukrainian archaeologists about the interactions between Romans and Iazyges. I found something else: perspective on the wars of today, and a sense of why, beyond his obvious incompetence in military matters, Trump had to lose his.

It was shaming to read the bombast of Trump: (”no president was willing to do what I have done tonight”) alongside the reflections of Marcus (“when things have such a plausible appearance, show them naked, see their shoddiness, strip away their own boastful account of themselves.”) Trump broadcast his arrogance to millions of people; Marcus wrote for himself.

Despite the fact he was commanding an army at the front, Marcus never mentioned the war in his Meditations. War was simply something he had to do; he had no difficulty seeing the other side as people, or understanding their motivations. He mentions the Iazyges only once in the text: to make a broader point about hubris, to suggest that it was wrong for Romans to take pride in taking a prisoner of war.

Although Marcus did not broach the subject of my interest, I could not stop reading his Meditations. The contrast with Trump’s utterances was astounding, and vertiginous. The one could spend nine years in command and write a philosophical diary in which he did not even mention the war; the other immediately leapt to praise himself for a war he would lose in weeks…

[With an focus on the “adventure in Iran,” Snyder elaborates the (painfully unflattering) comparison…]

… The American leaders had no idea of who they were or what they wanted, aside from the satisfaction of their emotional needs by the killing of others. They were unable to imagine that people on the other side might have ideas about their own interests and plans for their own behavior. The could not see the world, even in its plainest representation as geography; whereas Marcus exploited a bend in the Danube River to tactical advantage to win a battle; Trump chose to ignore the physical limit the Straits of Hormuz can place on world trade. As soon as the war began, the Iranians did the obvious: they responded to American long-range attacks with the same; and they blocked the Straits.

Because the Americans were operating without a sense of themselves, of the world, or other people, this came as a surprise. Marcus Aurelius offers this mild comment: “How absurd — and a complete stranger to the world– is the man surprised at any aspect of his experience in life!”

The Americans, strangers to the world, reacted to their feelings of surprise with fantasies of destruction. The pleasure they took in killing became a vision of annihilation. Rather than confront the errors they made about war, the Americans leapt to visions of violence in which no one would ever have to think again. Trump lost control on Easter Sunday when he tweeted: “Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell.” He then promised that he would bomb Iran “back to the Stone Age, where they belong” and said that “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” In our modern legal and ethical language, this is of course genocidal language. The American bombast was followed by American surrender.

Marcus Aurelius won his war against the Iazyges. He combined victory and prudence, and for this he was and will be remembered. The defeated Iazyges returned to their previous role as Roman clients, offered thousands of cavalrymen as soldiers of Rome, and opened trade routes to the east. Marcus’s philosophical diary has been read for the better part of two millenia; so long as we are present as a literate civilization, it will be read. Despite Marcus’s certainty that we will all be forgotten, others built a victory column in his honor after his death; it still stands in Rome, more than one thousand eight hundred years later.

Another legacy of Marcus’s victory also touches the center of what we think of as Western culture. As part of the peace accord, he dispatched 5,500 Iazyges cavalrymen, taken into his service, to the north of what is now northern England, to defend the Roman border at Hadrian’s Wall. Their first commander was a man named Arthur, and it is possible that the Iazyges and some of their Iranian-speaking kin incorporated his name into stories of their own — of a lady in the lake, of a sword in a stone, of a quest for a golden cup — which, with time, became the legend of Christian chivalry. That is another story, and one worth telling.

But it is also part of the story of Marcus Aurelius, which, despite the fact that he chose not to tell it himself, or rather precisely for that reason, is instructive about our predicament today. Stoicism is a way not to be a stranger to the world; it can protect the powerful from vanity and folly. To fall into a stupor of self-absorption, as Trump has done, is to flee from reality. Few wars are worth fighting; those that are fought can only be won in the world, and not within the tortured confines of estranged minds. Trump hastens now towards our shared horizon of death, seeking honors that only posterity can accord and will not…

On what Trump could– and should– learn from Marcus Aurelius: “Of Stoicism and Stupor,” from @timothysnyder.bsky.social.

“We are the other of the other”

“Ask yourself at every moment, ‘Is this necessary?”

“Kindness is invincible.”

– Marcus Aurelius

(TotH to MKM)

* Marcus Aurelius

###

As we barrel back to basics, we might recall that it was on this date in 1956 that Elvis Presley, working for the first time with  backing vocal group the Jordanaires, recorded “Don’t Be Cruel,” which had been written by Otis Blackwell. 

The single was released on July 13, 1956, backed with “Hound Dog.”  Within a few weeks “Hound Dog” had risen to No. 2 on the Pop charts with sales of over one million. Soon after it was overtaken by “Don’t Be Cruel,” which took No. 1 on all three main charts; Pop, Country, and R&B. Between them, both songs remained at No. 1 on the Pop chart for a run of 11 weeks. “Don’t Be Cruel” was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2002. In 2004, it was ranked No. 197 in Rolling Stone’s list of 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

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Did You Say Cookie?

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Did You Say Cookie?

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You, my right honourable friend, strike me as a textbook example of a canis venaticus.

And I'd wager a month's salary that you enjoy spending inordinate amounts of time in pursuit of game and prey for profit or pleasure.

But given that you've yet to successfully apprehend a hare of any size, shape, or form, I'm afraid that the prospects of us forging a social bond are all but impossible.

#LongWordASong. #HashtagGames #elvis #elvispresley #hounddog

You, my right honourable friend, strike me as a textbook example of a canis venaticus.

And I'd wager a month's salary that you enjoy spending inordinate amounts of time in pursuit of game and prey for profit or pleasure.

But given that you've yet to successfully apprehend a hare of any size, shape, or form, I'm afraid that the prospects of us forging a social bond are all but impossible.

#LongWordASong. #HashtagGames #elvis #elvispresley #hounddog

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HAPPY HEAVENLY BIRTHDAY to Elvis Presley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEeb6uPiQWI&t=217s Meanwhile, HB EP

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HAPPY HEAVENLY BIRTHDAY to Elvis Presley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEeb6uPiQWI&t=217s Meanwhile, HB EP

#Elvis #Presley #birthday #black #star #DavidBowie #GoldenYears #Martini #chanson #HugoandLuigi #DavyJones #Monkees #Epiphone #johnnyjblair #Kayguitar #HoundDog #Dontbecruel #king #milliondollarquartet #Johnny #Cash #JerryLeeLewis #CarlPerkins #BobDylan #Dylan #singeratlarge #postage #stamp

On the anniversary of its release ten facts about Elvis Presley’s song, Hound Dog.

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2025/07/13-july-hound-dog.html?m=0

#music #Elvis #HoundDog

On the anniversary of its release ten facts about Elvis Presley’s song, Hound Dog.

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2025/07/13-july-hound-dog.html?m=0

#music #Elvis #HoundDog

So. es ist wieder soweit.

Ich brauche das jetz!

#elvispresley
#hounddog

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzQ8GDBA8Is&list=PL84C9100FCEF9B6DA

Fue maestra del blues en un tiempo de cambio para la música. Su estilo visceral y su voz arrolladora influyeron a muchos.

Aunque sus canciones se harían más famosas en boca de otros.

Hoy, en #LaHistorietaMusical, vamos a hacerle justicia a la gran Big Mama Thornton.

#bigmamathornton #blues #hounddog #BallAndChain

Fue maestra del blues en un tiempo de cambio para la música. Su estilo visceral y su voz arrolladora influyeron a muchos.

Aunque sus canciones se harían más famosas en boca de otros.

Hoy, en #LaHistorietaMusical, vamos a hacerle justicia a la gran Big Mama Thornton.

#bigmamathornton #blues #hounddog #BallAndChain

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Confira a letra da música “Hound Dog” de Elvis Presley
#ElvisPresley #HoundDog
https://daletra.com.br/elvis-presley/letra/hound-dog.html

Sehen Sie den Text des Liedes “Hound Dog” von Elvis Presley
#ElvisPresley #HoundDog
https://daletra.top/elvis-presley/liedtexte/hound-dog.html

#SomethingBeautiful #MomoKaiju Archive- Momo napping on the back deck. May 12 2024. #Dachshund #houndDog #WienerDog #LongHairDontCare #MomoKaiju

#SomethingBeautiful #MomoKaiju Archive- Momo napping on the back deck. May 12 2024. #Dachshund #houndDog #WienerDog #LongHairDontCare #MomoKaiju

And don't forget Tracy Chapman's performance of "Hound Dog" at the Kennedy Center Honors (2012), a Buddy Guy Tribute 🎶🎶

👏👏👏👏👏
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXlZz8p59UM

#GOAT #GreatestOfAllTime #TracyChapman #Music #KennedyCenter #KennedyCenterHonors #BuddyGuy #HoundDog

And don't forget Tracy Chapman's performance of "Hound Dog" at the Kennedy Center Honors (2012), a Buddy Guy Tribute 🎶🎶

👏👏👏👏👏
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXlZz8p59UM

#GOAT #GreatestOfAllTime #TracyChapman #Music #KennedyCenter #KennedyCenterHonors #BuddyGuy #HoundDog

@AdamAdam
Dogs are Literally. The. Best. #houndsofmastodon #hound #hounddog

Alternate takes #DogsOfMastodon #hounddog

Alternate takes #DogsOfMastodon #hounddog

My brother's younger coonhound came over for a while yesterday. She prefers to sit on chairs like a human. Even on the couch, she'll fall asleep like this. Here is her book jacket photo. #DogsOfMastodon #hounddog

My brother's younger coonhound came over for a while yesterday. She prefers to sit on chairs like a human. Even on the couch, she'll fall asleep like this. Here is her book jacket photo. #DogsOfMastodon #hounddog

This is Pancake the Dog. She’s trying to convince you that all will be lost if she doesn’t get a treat. Please don’t believe her. She’s had plenty of treats already.

#dogsofmastodon #dog #houndDog #couchDog #seriouslySheDoesNotNeedAnotherTreat

This is Pancake the Dog. She’s trying to convince you that all will be lost if she doesn’t get a treat. Please don’t believe her. She’s had plenty of treats already.

#dogsofmastodon #dog #houndDog #couchDog #seriouslySheDoesNotNeedAnotherTreat

It’s good to be the queen. #hounddog #houndsofmastodon

Good news, everyone! I have new pictures of Pancake the Dog!!

#dogsofmastodon #houndDog #couch dog #sleepyDog

Good news, everyone! I have new pictures of Pancake the Dog!!

#dogsofmastodon #houndDog #couch dog #sleepyDog

#hounddog #houndsofmastodon

More pics. She’s like (much) more than half of my camera role. 🤣
#redbone #coonhound #hounddog #houndsofmastodon

#hounddog #dogsofmastodon

#hounddog #dogsofmastodon

#SomethingBeautiful #MomoKaiju Archive- Hound dog gonna hound dog. June 18 2023. #HoundDog #Dachshund #WienerDog #LongHairDontCare #MomoKaiju

#SomethingBeautiful #MomoKaiju Archive- Hound dog gonna hound dog. June 18 2023. #HoundDog #Dachshund #WienerDog #LongHairDontCare #MomoKaiju

One of the cuties decided to take a nap almost immediately after waking up 😂😍 #mastodogs #beaglelife #hounddog

The original singer:

Big Mama Thornton - "Hound Dog" 🎶🎶

https://youtu.be/BmpwvxW0gW0

#Music #BigMamaThornton #HoundDog