“They saw their injured country's woe;
The flaming town, the wasted field;
Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;
They took the spear, - but left the shield.”
―Philip Freneau
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And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again?
Archilochus
Sorry, but I shall remain perpetually at WARr with linguistic degeneracy till the day I die.
I don't think it's th least bit amusing the we let the LOWEST, most IGNORANT, fundmentally INEPT members of society DICTATE the standards by which our children must be raised.
I know person in North carolina who knows an old colored woman whose name is ESTELLE.
SHE pronounces it EStel, and HE, being the leftist SOB he is, thinks that's just FINE.
Sorry, but like Plato's "Cratylus", I incline towards Heraclitus...
SOCRATES: Nor can we reasonably say, Cratylus, that there is knowledge at all, if everything is in a state of transition and there is nothing abiding; for knowledge too cannot continue to be knowledge unless continuing always to abide and exist. But if the very nature of knowledge changes, at the time when the change occurs there will be no knowledge; and if the transition is always going on, there will always be no knowledge, and, according to this view, there will be no one to know and nothing to be known: but if that which knows and that which is known exists ever, and the beautiful and the good and every other thing also exist, then I do not think that they can resemble a process or flux, as we were just now supposing. Whether there is this eternal nature in things, or whether the truth is what Heracleitus and his followers and many others say, is a question hard to determine; and no man of sense will like to put himself or the education of his mind in the power of names: neither will he so far trust names or the givers of names as to be confident in any knowledge which condemns himself and other existences to an unhealthy state of unreality; he will not believe that all things leak like a pot, or imagine that the world is a man who has a running at the nose. This may be true, Cratylus, but is also very likely to be untrue; and therefore I would not have you be too easily persuaded of it. Reflect well and like a man, and do not easily accept such a doctrine; for you are young and of an age to learn. And when you have found the truth, come and tell me.
CRATYLUS: I will do as you say, though I can assure you, Socrates, that I have been considering the matter already, and the result of a great deal of trouble and consideration is that I incline to Heracleitus.
And, of course, the ideal form of ideology of this global capitalism is multiculturalism, the attitude which, from a kind of empty global position, treats each local culture the way the colonizer treats colonized people—as ‘natives’ whose mores are to be carefully studied and ‘respected’. That is to say, the relationship between traditional imperialist colonialism and global capitalist self-colonization is exactly the same as the relationship between Western cultural imperialism and multiculturalism: in the same way that global capitalism involves the paradox of colonization without the colonizing Nation-State metropole, multiculturalism involves patronizing Eurocentrist distance and/or respect for local cultures without roots in one’s own particular culture. In other words, multiculturalism is a disavowed, inverted, self-referential form of racism, a ‘racism with a distance’—it ‘respects’ the Other’s identity, conceiving the Other as a self-enclosed ‘authentic’ community towards which he, the multiculturalist, maintains a distance rendered possible by his privileged universal position. Multiculturalism is a racism which empties its own position of all positive content (the multiculturalist is not a direct racist, he doesn’t oppose to the Other the particular values of his own culture), but nonetheless retains this position as; the privileged empty point of universality from which one is able to appreciate (and depreciate) properly other particular cultures—the multiculturalist respect for the Other’s specificity is the very form of asserting one’s; own superiority. -Slavoj Zizek
There is no longer a singular subjective, I. There is only the multiplicty, We.
AFter a few iterations, the Psychologist's DSM will proclaim multiple personality disorder the "norm"... NOT the exception. All they need to do is de-classify the remaining disorders and proclaim them "acceptable" behaviours (like they did, homosexuality).
...because to a neo-liberal it's the quantity of consumer "choices" that matter, NOT the factors that "limit" them to a singular "I". You have 5 senses and multiple drives. The consumer must be "freed" to enable them to "Represent" ALL of them!
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Not to be too much a stickler, –– though I certaily AM that –– but midwifery is properly pronounced midWIFFery.
I was surprsed to hear this glaring error in what appears to an otherwise excellent, if all-too-brief dramatization.
A small matter, perhaps, but we must never forget "FOR WANT OF A NAIL A SHOE WAS LOST, etc."
po-TA-to, po-ta-to... it's ALL Greek to me.
:P
Sorry, but I shall remain perpetually at WARr with linguistic degeneracy till the day I die.
I don't think it's th least bit amusing the we let the LOWEST, most IGNORANT, fundmentally INEPT members of society DICTATE the standards by which our children must be raised.
I know person in North carolina who knows an old colored woman whose name is ESTELLE.
SHE pronounces it EStel, and HE, being the leftist SOB he is, thinks that's just FINE.
Sorry, bu I DON'T.
Sorry, but like Plato's "Cratylus", I incline towards Heraclitus...
SOCRATES: Nor can we reasonably say, Cratylus, that there is knowledge at all, if everything is in a state of transition and there is nothing abiding; for knowledge too cannot continue to be knowledge unless continuing always to abide and exist. But if the very nature of knowledge changes, at the time when the change occurs there will be no knowledge; and if the transition is always going on, there will always be no knowledge, and, according to this view, there will be no one to know and nothing to be known: but if that which knows and that which is known exists ever, and the beautiful and the good and every other thing also exist, then I do not think that they can resemble a process or flux, as we were just now supposing. Whether there is this eternal nature in things, or whether the truth is what Heracleitus and his followers and many others say, is a question hard to determine; and no man of sense will like to put himself or the education of his mind in the power of names: neither will he so far trust names or the givers of names as to be confident in any knowledge which condemns himself and other existences to an unhealthy state of unreality; he will not believe that all things leak like a pot, or imagine that the world is a man who has a running at the nose. This may be true, Cratylus, but is also very likely to be untrue; and therefore I would not have you be too easily persuaded of it. Reflect well and like a man, and do not easily accept such a doctrine; for you are young and of an age to learn. And when you have found the truth, come and tell me.
CRATYLUS: I will do as you say, though I can assure you, Socrates, that I have been considering the matter already, and the result of a great deal of trouble and consideration is that I incline to Heracleitus.
Neether nor.
Come on, Use your black voice...
"Culture is, before all things, the unity of artistic style, in every expression of the life of a people." - Nietzsche
...and multiculture IS global capitalism's MASTER signifier.
And, of course, the ideal form of ideology of this global capitalism is multiculturalism, the attitude which, from a kind of empty global position, treats each local culture the way the colonizer treats colonized people—as ‘natives’ whose mores are to be carefully studied and ‘respected’. That is to say, the relationship between traditional imperialist colonialism and global capitalist self-colonization is exactly the same as the relationship between Western cultural imperialism and multiculturalism: in the same way that global capitalism involves the paradox of colonization without the colonizing Nation-State metropole, multiculturalism involves patronizing Eurocentrist distance and/or respect for local cultures without roots in one’s own particular culture. In other words, multiculturalism is a disavowed, inverted, self-referential form of racism, a ‘racism with a distance’—it ‘respects’ the Other’s identity, conceiving the Other as a self-enclosed ‘authentic’ community towards which he, the multiculturalist, maintains a distance rendered possible by his privileged universal position. Multiculturalism is a racism which empties its own position of all positive content (the multiculturalist is not a direct racist, he doesn’t oppose to the Other the particular values of his own culture), but nonetheless retains this position as; the privileged empty point of universality from which one is able to appreciate (and depreciate) properly other particular cultures—the multiculturalist respect for the Other’s specificity is the very form of asserting one’s; own superiority. -Slavoj Zizek
Divide and conquer.
There is no longer a singular subjective, I. There is only the multiplicty, We.
AFter a few iterations, the Psychologist's DSM will proclaim multiple personality disorder the "norm"... NOT the exception. All they need to do is de-classify the remaining disorders and proclaim them "acceptable" behaviours (like they did, homosexuality).
...because to a neo-liberal it's the quantity of consumer "choices" that matter, NOT the factors that "limit" them to a singular "I". You have 5 senses and multiple drives. The consumer must be "freed" to enable them to "Represent" ALL of them!
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