Hopefully America is rediscovering its spiderman moment. With great power comes great responsibility.
This is the responsibility I hope to rediscover. Not the power to cower all others, but the strength to settle disputes. Not the wealth to try and magically end poverty (you can't) but the means to provide more opportunity for others to strive for prosperity. Not a creed corrupted by academic lunacy, but a return to common sense. No more hate speech, but rather the clarity and courage to call out all bigotry and not just ascribe it to one heritage. No more enabling the mentally ill by silencing and shaming the sane. No more pretending words are violence and dismissing and excusing actual violence against others. No more destroying history so that we can create a future built on lies and corruption. We will not trumpet our perfection, but rather talk frankly about the good we want to protect and the evil we want to overcome.
That is the spiderman moment I hope.
Today marks the three hundred and thirtieth birthday of the Frenchman François-Marie Arouet, better known by his nom de plume, Voltaire (1694-1778).
Born into a bourgeois family during the reign of Louis XIV, the “Sun King” (r. 1643-1715), Voltaire suffered tragedy at a young age when his mother died. Never close with his father or brother, Voltaire exhibited a rebellious attitude toward authority from his youth. His brilliant mind was fostered in the care of the Society of Jesus, who introduced him to the joys of literature and theater. Despite his later criticisms against the Church, Voltaire, throughout his life, fondly recalled his dedicated Jesuit teachers.
Although he spent time as a civil servant in the French embassy to the Hague, Voltaire’s main love was writing—an endeavor where he excelled in various genres, including poetry, which led to his appointment as the royal court poet for King Louis XV. Widely recognized as one of the greatest French writers, and even hyperbolically referred to by ...
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