A day dawns. Is it a new day, or is it groundhog day, a hellish repetition of the last four years? This is reference to the election of course. Could this be a version of Nietzsche’s doctrine of eternal return? That understanding of history posits that we are fated to repeat every detail of…
When I was in my 40’s I learned that my great Uncle Thomas McLamb was a soldier in the Army of Northern Virginia lead by Robert E. Lee. The War of Northern Aggression did not go well for Thomas. He was greviously wounded by a spent minié ball at Kelly’s Ford, Virginia. Uncle…
“The virus is circulating at a speed that not even the most pessimistic forecasts had anticipated,” Macron said in a televised address. “Like all our neighbours, we are submerged by the sudden acceleration of the virus.” “We are all in the same position: overrun by a second wave which we know will be harder,…
The language game of legitimationis not state-politicalbut philosophical. There is a universal “history” of spirit,spirit is “life,” and “life” is its own self-presentationand formulation in the ordered knowledgeof all of its formscontained in the empirical sciences.German idealism is the narration of the his(story) of this life-subject. In this perspective,knowledge first finds legitimacywithin itself,and it…
How do I write this morning? I did not listen to the debate last night. I cannot expose myself to a litany of lies, which is nothing other than emotional abuse. Mentally and emotionally I have suffered enough from the verbal battering that accompanies the President of the United States. Nevertheless I found sleep…
A friend sent me this youtube video. The visual is an excerpt of the confirmation hearing for Judge Amy Cony Barrett. Watching and listening to the speech of Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, my despair deepened. How more craven, oblivious to the requirements of office, and of representative democracy can this possibly become? The legislative/administrative violence…
…the right to decide what is trueis not independent of the right to decide what is just,even if statement consigned to these two authorities differ in nature.The point is there is a strict interlinkagebetween the kind of language called science and the kind called ethics and politics:they both stem from the same perspective, the…
Religion and politics are hot buttons. That has always been true. A long list of deadly conflicts could be composed without difficulty. Both of these topics are a “third rail.” Advice is widely known that these topics ought to be avoided in polite company. Would you solicit opinion about politics with relatives whom you…
I did not watch the debate for egotistical reasons. What could the President possibly have said, that he does not say on a daily basis on twitter? What could he possibly show, that he has not demonstrated already? Besides, I’ve already voted. Of importance to me is my rest. Why jeopardize a good night’s…
In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would,at the same time,believe everything and nothing,think that everything was possible and that nothing was true. ….Mass propaganda discovered that its audiencewas ready at all times to believe the worst,no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceivedbecause…
