From Perry Anderson’s review of On China by Henry Kissinger in the LRB: Politically, as an attempt to force Vietnam out of Cambodia and restore Pol Pot to power, it was a complete failure. Deng, who regretted not having persisted with his onslaught on Vietnam, despite the thrashing his troops had endured, tried to save face by funnelling arms to Pol Pot through successive Thai…
China On My Mind: Seeing Indiana
“Never think of a surface except as the extension of a volume…” Henry Moore (out of Rodin) quoted by Donal Hall China was forced upon me. Look, but don’t read beyond the excerpts below, unless you have a lot of time and a mind that can hold any number of contradictory ideas at one time as a juggler might chainsaws. It is a world unknown…
2.2 Million Days of Lust, or In the Beginning
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Neo-Determinism, or Pre-Crime Pre-Made is Predictable
Earlier this morning I was trying to begin to really grapple with the determinism of guys like Pinker and Dennett (these are liberal determinists–meaning they have good intentions, really, they promise with a spoon full of the toxin formerly known as sugar), folks that see the forces at work in nature as being primarily a text already written, at least on a larger social scale,…
The Dog In Me
As I am no fan of watching televised sports and would go so far as to be antagonistic towards organized sports devised as part of our educational system not to mention being bilious on the subject of the waste of time and resources that is a devotion to professional sports (sorry fans–it’s not you, it’s me), I offer a paean to play detached from the…
Licensed Educator: Got a Job, Indiana?
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Elmer’s, Wood, or Crazy? The Glue of Groups
Hot on the heels of my discovery that I am likely a very tiny member of a very tiny minority of people in this country because I find the massive number of God-Science sites utterly lunatic (referenced in the post on Young Earth Activists) and honestly quite irrelevant to reality, I tripped over this in the NYT, Activists Fight Green Projects, Seeing U.N. Plot. Hey,…
Moments of Execution
It has been pointed out that the US economy is bogged down with corporatism’s replication of middle management. We lay off actual workers and rescind public programs in order to find more ways to pay the managers with their upper level degrees. (How wonderful that we want to make more of them, convincing all citizens by national propaganda from the head cheese that you can’t…
Seeking the Safety of Certainty: Totalitarian Minds in Religion and Science
Guiding my thinking is the very clear recognition that I am nearly always a partialist who at times spouts a partialism that upon reflection seems a tad embarrassing. I know some things fairly well in the sense that I have repetitive experience of certain things as well as having studied certain things with some depth and focus. I have a mind and body, together and…
Young Earth Activists and the Gap Theory
Folks are working very hard to “prove” their “faith” is “scientific.” I had no idea it was such a massive industry. A Facebook comment today on this story, “Vi Simpson: The Woman Who Punked The Radical Republicans in the Indiana State Senate and Their Creationist Bill,” alerted me to this. The commenter went to a very good university and is now a lawyer: this is…