tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post1342323104859261653..comments2024-02-12T23:25:09.583-08:00Comments on Overweening Generalist: The Day We Fight Backmichaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13526042582094867513noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-65898206542058028222014-02-18T23:21:43.767-08:002014-02-18T23:21:43.767-08:00Eric- I love that line from Annie Hall.
Anon-I...Eric- I love that line from Annie Hall.<br /><br />Anon-I've been researching and collecting a list of names of fairly prominent people - mostly artists of some sort - who have been calling BULLSHIT on the idea that al-Qaeda was so horrific we need to suspend the Bill of Rights, even Habeus Corpus...forever. <br /><br />With Wikileaks and Snowden and a few other revelations, it's time some of start saying the story was BULLSHIT and let's work to take back what they stole while most of us were cowering in fear. <br /><br />Adam Curtis seems to have seen through the whole thing from the get-go. The Power of Nightmares:<br />https://archive.org/details/ThePowerOfNightmares-Episode1BabyItsColdOutside<br /><br />Thanks for the tip on The Mathematical Experience; it sounds like the sort of math book that I find riveting. An earlier book like that, for me: Morris Kline's Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty.michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13526042582094867513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-44464101149939524142014-02-12T20:05:42.931-08:002014-02-12T20:05:42.931-08:00My current metaphysical framework
is the casting o...My current metaphysical framework<br />is the casting of General Alexander<br />as "Spandam" of CP9 and the phrase<br />"Sogeking shoot down that flag" sums<br />up the appropriate response to out<br />of control governments.<br /><br />(That's from One Piece, one of the<br />best animated cartoons from Anime.)<br /><br />I never felt threatened by some<br />Arab who lived in a gopher hole in<br />Afghanistan, particularly since no<br />one ever presented any creditable<br />evidence against him. Propaganda<br />is not evidence, even if some had<br />a grievance against USA there has<br />not been any occurence that would<br />lend any credibility to the official<br />version of far too many things in<br />the last few years.<br /><br />The idea that we should give up<br />our entire system of laws just to<br />save ourself from a few criminal<br />nuts is bullshit. It needs to be<br />identified as such and roundly<br />laughed out of adult discourse.<br /><br />During the French Revolution the<br />"terror" was inflicted on those<br />who had mislead the people using<br />the media. Our current media needs<br />to stop pandering to the powerful<br />bullshitters and start reporting<br />on the awful stench of what has<br />happened.<br /><br />Of course with examples like Webb<br />and Hastings, I can understand<br />why they aren't too keen on being<br />conspicuous.<br /><br />On another topic, I recommend<br />Davis and Hersh The Mathematical<br />Experience. It covers the why of<br />mathematicians ignoring things/<br />Godel in their day to day business<br />even though there are deep fissures<br />in math philosophy still unsolved.<br /><br />At least you're smart enough and<br />concerned enough to want to make<br />sense of the world you live in.<br />Keep it up.<br /><br />And remeber, if we can't see both<br />of Janet Jacksons tits the jihadis<br />have already won. : ^ )Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-44767592181260733452014-02-12T14:09:50.946-08:002014-02-12T14:09:50.946-08:00Terrific piece, as usual. I just rewatched "...Terrific piece, as usual. I just rewatched "Annie Hall" with its line, "Sex with you is a Kafka-esque experience."<br /><br />I also think of Bob Wilson's comment about Welles' "The Trial" vis-a-vis the novel. The explosion at the end in the film has some ambiguity as to who dies. He saw the possibility that Joseph K may have escaped at the end of the film and blown up the cops. The book doesn't allow for this possibility.Eric Wagnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04312033917401203598noreply@blogger.com