Re - "Be not afraid of Greatness "

[Cornelius Hamelberg]

Actually, the full quote is “Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”

There’s the classic Shakespearean definition of tragedy, the fall of the great man, sometimes a tragic hero :

“So oft it chances in particular men

That, for some vicious mole of nature in them,

As in their birth,- wherein they are not guilty,

Since nature cannot choose his origin,-

By the o'ergrowth of some complexion,

Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason,

Or by some habit that too much o'erleavens

The form of plausive manners, that these men

Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect,

Being nature's livery, or fortune's star,

Their virtues else- be they as pure as grace,

As infinite as man may undergo-

Shall in the general censure take corruption

From that particular fault. The dram of e'il

Doth all the noble substance often dout 

To his own scandal.”

Then there’s the Biblical - exalted Hebrew poetry translated into Majestic English.

“How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!”

And in the world of realpolitik

this one has an axe to grind 

with little facts

dressed in hostile prose

and the object is Zelensky  

berated here in Forbidden News 

In Zelensky’s case, pray, what could “that particular fault” be?

“Let he that is without sin throw the first stone !”

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