The best part of JFKβs famous speech, I always think, isnβt βIch bin ein Berliner,β but what follows: democracy can be problematic, but no democratic state has ever had to build a wall to prevent its citizens from running away.
The US has the weapon systems, against which the Iranians can do little. However, they are smart enough to see that their hope of surviving this is to exploit Trumpβs psychological instability. Are they perhaps being advised by Russian intelligence officers, who are experts in playing him?
Then the students can be replaced by studying bots. The AI can teach itself while the students go and do real work in factories and mines or, if they are women, focus on producing broods of conservative children.
You are educated in philosophy, I believe. He does some interesting stuff with Platoβs concept of thymos.
Many people were put off by Fukuyamaβs title. If you read to the end he gives many reasons why a liberalism without external enemies is likely to tear itself apart.
βIn America they havenβt used it (English) for years.β
Is there a modern equivalent for the βParthian shotβ?
What comes through most strongly from Trumpβs and Hegsethβs media performances is sheer reveling in destruction. Any talk about liberation or reconstruction is most likely just for the rubes.
Whoβll be the Camus to make him immortal?
Which implies that the propagandists (Solovyev and co) arenβt getting much traction. Did Putin ever put any faith in them?
Have to wonder, how does Putinβs performance look by comparison? Did he try to prepare the Russian public for what was coming?
More like the kind of βacte gratuitβ that was a staple of existentialism. An action performed as a pure expression of freedom, without cause or objective let alone analysis.
They (the monarchy) got away with it for so long largely because of WW2 nostalgia. Peopleβs feelings were grounded in memories of their stalwart performance during the Blitz, Elizabeth driving trucks etc. With her death the spell was broken and we see the survivors in the harsh light of day.
As Henry Higgins says, βWhy canβt the English teach their children how to speak? Norwegians learn Norwegian, the Greeks are taught their Greek.β
I just looked it up. Fascinating. Of course Iβm familiar with the nightmare-inducing properties of cooked cheese. Thanks.
A striking insight imho.
Outbreak of Peloponnesian War? Sparta (a land power) was bounced into war by its ally Corinth (a naval power) which resented Athensβ naval superiority.
Edgar Allan Poe vibes. The Masque of the Orange Death.
But heβs got plenty of secrets to conceal.
George, the German for war isnβt Kreig, itβs Krieg.
Edgar Allan Poe vibes. βThe Masque of the Orange Death.β
Calling the nuclear umbrella a βparapluieβ is delightful. Iβm waiting for the young Catherine Deneuve to appear.
He should try defending it as what the existentialists called an βacte gratuitβ, that is, an act without aim or purpose but performed as a pure demonstration of freedom.
If they throw them in the air the fighter pilots will grab them as they zoom past.
But such a cool name β¦
From what little I know about Beshear that sounds right. I have a particular liking for Spanberger, but we shall see.
Still, the existential question remains: should the Dems bet on the candidate who can score huge wins in blue states or a candidate who offers some outreach into purple states? Harrisβs defeat doesnβt prove that AOC would have won.
Reminiscent of the βpatriotic educationβ called for by Ludendorff in the last years of WW1. The purpose was to motivate the civilian population to hold out as living conditions deteriorated still further.
Lose to the US/Israel alliance, or lose to Iranian civil society? Two different questions.
Great work, Elizabeth.
