Re: [sebcat] Too cool for school
sebcat wrote:
base570 wrote:
imsparticus wrote:
actually in most ways I think its less technical.
Curious as to why you think it's less technical. Is it the one vs two parachute thing? I would agree that the gea is less technical but as far as the jump itself and other particulars... I'm not so sure. Maybe if all jumps are from the potato bridge I guess.
That discussion will end up deconstructed to an argument about the definition of the word "technical".
If said definition involves jump complexity and not risk, one could argue that while a tracking jump from a cliff would be more technical than a tracking jump from an airplane, the cliff tracking jump would be less technical than any VFS or CRW comp jump. What I want to point out is that saying it's one way or the other is over-generalizing it a bit. But I guess that's why imsparticus phrased it as "in most ways", so now we need to know what the typical BASE-jump/skydive is, which I don't think we could find out without making some overly-broad assumptions.
Also, what is the story about the confiscated rig? What happened to individual self-governance? On who's authority and according to what rule did this happen? Or is that self-governance as in mob rule? Is that something I subject to by jumping in the valley?
"Burn her!"
Yeah, you are probably right about the whole 'technical' definition.
As far as the self governance thing, I think Theodore Roosevelt had some good thoughts on on it...
"It behooves us to remember that men can never escape being governed. Either they must govern themselves or they must submit to being governed by others. If from lawlessness or fickleness, from folly or self-indulgence, they refuse to govern themselves, then most assuredly in the end they will have to be governed from the outside. They can prevent the need of government from without only by showing that they possess the power of government from within. A sovereign cannot make excuses for his failures; a sovereign must accept the responsibility for the exercise of the power that inheres in him; and where, as is true in our Republic, the people are sovereign, then the people must show a sober understanding and a sane and steadfast purpose if they are to preserve that orderly liberty upon which as a foundation every republic must rest." (At Jamestown Exposition, April 26, 1907.) Mem. Ed. XII, 593; Nat. Ed. XI, 312.
"The absolute prerequisite for successful self-government in any people is the power of self-restraint which refuses to follow either the wild-eyed extremists of radicalism or the dull-eyed extremists of reaction. Either set of extremists will wreck the Nation just as certainly as the other. "(September 12, 1918.)
Roosevelt in the Kansas City Star, 213. SELF-GOVERNMENT — RESPONSIBILITIES OF. "You cannot give self-government to anybody. He has got to earn it for himself. You can give him the chance to obtain self-government, but he himself out of his own heart must do the governing. He must govern himself. That is what it means. That is what self-government means. . . . There must be control. There must be mastery, somewhere, and if there is no self- control and self-mastery, the control and the mastery will ultimately be imposed from without." (At University of Wisconsin, Madison, April 15, 1911.) Mem. Ed. XV, 548; Nat. Ed. XIII, 594.