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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

Monday, May 4, 2026

Transforming the Master Discourse into a University (Moralizing) Discourse: "Why this is the Good/ Right/ Best/ ONLY Way to Do It Properly...."

"It's Scientific!"  "It's Secular!" "It's Non-Theistic!"  "It's NOT based Upon Any Imaginaries!"  @@

It's Based Upon The Master's Whims (Super-Ego)!  

And Since the Master (ie - Government) Has a Monopoly On Violence, You'll be Punished If You Don't Do it THIS Way!  The Master's Imaginary-Based and Approved Way!

from Google AI on Isaiah Berlin:
Key quotes and articulations of this idea from Berlin include:
  • On the Plurality of Values: "The world of values is such that we cannot have everything... to ignore this is to misunderstand what it is to be a human being".
  • On Incommensurability (from The Crooked Timber of Humanity): "The values of a person or culture... are often... 'incommensurable.'"
  • On the Myth of a Single Scale: "To assume that all values can be graded on one scale, so that it is a mere matter of inspection to determine the highest, seems to me to falsify our knowledge that men are free agents."
  • On Liberty vs. Equality: "Total liberty for wolves is death to the lambs, total liberty of the powerful, the gifted, is not compatible with the rights to a decent existence of the weak and the less gifted."
  • On Choosing: "The need to choose, to sacrifice some ultimate values to others, turns out to be a permanent characteristic of the human predicament.
If All forms of Life were "absolutely" flourishing, what principle(s) would guide Evulution and Natural Selection?

What is the function of Law then?  According to Luhmann, it's to "stabilize expectations"

"Custom is like a King, and the Law, like a Tyrant"Dio Chrysostom (Natural Law being adopted by custom, not novel Legislation)...

The result of this confusion is that one affirms the essence of justice to be the authority of the legislator; another, the interest of the sovereign; another, present custom, and this is the most sure. Nothing, according to reason alone, is just in itself; all changes with time. CUSTOM CREATES THE WHOLE OF EQUITY, FOR THE SIMPLE REASON THAT IT IS ACCEPTED. IT IS THE MYSTICAL FOUNDATION OF ITS AUTHORITY; WHOEVER CARRIES IT BACK TO FIRST PRINCIPLES DESTROYS IT. NOTHING IS SO FAULTY AS THOSE LAWS WHICH CORRECT FAULTS. He who obeys them because they are just, obeys a justice which is imaginary, and not the essence of law; it is quite self-contained, it is law and nothing more. He who will examine its motive will find it so feeble and so trifling that if he be not accustomed to contemplate the wonders of human imagination, he will marvel that one century has gained for it so much pomp and reverence. The art of opposition and of revolution is to unsettle established customs, sounding them even to their source, to point out their want of authority and justice. We must, it is said, get back to the natural and fundamental laws of the State, which an unjust custom has abolished. It is a game certain to result in the loss of all; nothing will be just on the balance. Yet people readily lend their ear to such arguments. They shake off the yoke as soon as they recognise it; and the great profit by their ruin, and by that of these curious investigators of accepted customs. But from a contrary mistake men sometimes think they can justly do everything which is not without an example. THAT IS WHY THE WISEST OF LEGISLATORS SAID THAT IT WAS NECESSARY TO DECEIVE MEN FOR THEIR OWN GOOD; and another, a good politician, "Cum veritatem qua liberetur ignoret, expedit quod fallatur." 

Pascal, "Pensees"

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yap.
Propaganda of "those who know better".
Yawn.

Or... words, words, words(c)

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

Perhaps we should all become Laconic (Spartans)...

Acta non Verba!

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

Old Italian saying:

Alexander never did what he said, and Caesar never said what he did.

Joe Conservative said...

...on (c)

Anonymous said...

Ho... spotted best joke to the point

dRump: "We USA have most powerful army... please, help us" %-))))))

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

That IS funny, since G_d only helps those who help themselves.

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

...and we're done helpin' y'all!

Anonymous said...

))))

Times changing. ;-)