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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

Sunday, December 17, 2023

A 20th/ 21st Century Political Paradigm Shift?

The Sentry's Challenge: "Halt! Who goes there? Friend, Foe, or Subversive Globalist Cockroach?

from the Notes of Byung-Chul Han's "Burnout Society"
1. An interesting, reciprocal relationship holds between social and biological discourses. The sciences are not free of nonscientific dispositives. Accordingly, a paradigm shift occurred within medical immunology at the end of the Cold War. In America, Polly Matzinger discarded the immunological model of preceding decades. According to her model, the immune system does not distinguish between “self” and “non-self,” i.e., domestic and foreign, but between “friendly” and “dangerous.” See Polly Matzinger, “Friendly and Dangerous Signals: Is the Tissue in Control?” Nature Immunology 8.1 (2007): 11–13. The object of immune defense is no longer foreignness or Otherness as such. Only foreign intruders that act destructively in inner, domestic space are combated. So long as what is foreign does not attract unwelcome attention, immune defenses ignore it. It follows that the biological immune system is more hospitable than previously assumed. That is, it does not harbor xenophobia. As such, it proves more intelligent than human societies. Xenophobia is a pathologically escalated immunoreaction that proves damaging to one’s own development [die Entwicklung des Eigenen].
Now, apply the lesson to the Hamas/ Israel problem???

14 comments:

Anonymous said...

Is it YOUR problem? ;-)

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Is Ukraine/ Russia?

Anonymous said...

When USA decided to became Buddhists country? ;-)

To postpone all earthly problems in favor of meditation on its belly button.

Joe Conservative said...

In G_d we Trust...

Anonymous said...

Oṃ maṇi padme Buddha? ;-)

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Sic Semper Tyrannus!

Anonymous said...

Aha! Valar Morgulis! :-)))

Anonymous said...

What is law of unintended consequences?
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Anonymous said...

Well... you have my condolence.

Now you are the same banana republic -- shithole where they use accusations in criminal acts to withdraw political opponents from elections -- as anybody else.

:-(

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Yes, "American exceptionalism" has now proven itself a myth.

Anonymous said...

As something unusual? Yes.

As some type of prejudge ordinary for any country, or even individual city, town, even up to individual village.

I have cousin, from countryside. And he was showing such a "exceptionalism" -- idea of superiority of village dwellers... against dumb fools urbanites. ;-P

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

/As something unusual? Yes.
As some type of prejudge ordinary for any country, or even individual city, town, even up to individual village.
I have cousin, from countryside. And he was showing such a "exceptionalism" -- idea of superiority of village dwellers... against dumb fools urbanites. ;-P


Plato knew your cousin. He tried to keep him in harmony with the urbanites by making sure that every citizen of Magnesia had a country house and a city house, allegiance to a village, and a greater polis, and grew socialized to both locations. As for me I remain forever just a simple country mouse.

Anonymous said...

And what about those who like music and those who deaf to it?

Those who prefer fish and meat, and vegans?

About man and women, for gawd sake?

Fans of ST and SW? :-))))

Anonymous said...

\\As for me I remain forever just a simple country mouse.

That's how mammals outlasted dinos. ;-P

But... I caught one just yesterday, with a primitive mousetrap. ;-)