“From what I can tell from what I know of my classmates, there are still some people have not changed a whit since high school, same easy going racism, same blind patriotism, same scorn for the different, same indifference to idea and intellect. The best thing, and it’s a poor best, is that they are all going crazy with anger in the knowledge their spokesman on the national and world stage is going to be sent packing.”< E.L.
Part of the Picture
Extrait d’un courriel:
I keep returning in my mind to the remark you made near the end of our Zoom. Something like: “Once a political scientist, always one, which means looking at the facts in the face.”
True, the facts of human social behavior is hard to discern but way too much of political commentary is part of the picture rather than a description of the picture — if I can out it that way.
Thx for that nugget.
Know Thyself
Like many persons whose geneological origins can be found in Northern Europe going back at least several migrations, I am insufficiently #melanated, especially for living where another “migration” has brought me.
My skin, however, responds warmly to sunlight and tans up pretty nice.
#racism #colorism #melanism
Adolescence from the Vantage of Old Age
From the vantage pf 75, adolescence, its mental turbulence and arduoud phase of learning what is real and what isn’t in the world extends far longer than the advent of puberty to the sill of legal adulthood. Rather it is the onset of an age of reason, as defined, of course, by the attitudes which aging imposes.
Thought Crimes
Continuing correspondance …
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I don’t really have the energy to get outraged over the rushed nomination to RBG, the idolation of whom is typical of the current state of “liberal” culture. Make that liberal “culture”.
Hypocrisy, such as McConnell’s, is the name of the political game. Did anyone think Trump wouldn’t rush to appoint? But hypocrisy of the ones justifies, in my opinion, the hypocrisy of the others. The GOP will prevail on this Scotus nomination but what will be their eventual cost? I personally hope that revenge will be sought and obtained — a somewhat different wish than yours for eventual balance and restraint. I don’t know if the Dems will prevail in the White House or the Senate. But all gloves are off, and should be.
For the record, you know already, that I am radically pro-choice, but I am also increasingly anti-woke. Another recent tweet of mine: “How many racists can dance on the the head of a pin?” A turn of thought a little too complex for Twitter, I admit. The Woke Ones probably didn’t get my point.
John remarked in a tweet that he had felt the help of that beer. I think the recording session took place late in the afternoon, so cocktail hour. I remember his personal taste as being more inclined to chardonnay.
Interesting about the Le Monde magazine piece, alas only a snipet available this side of the firewall, though easy to imagine backhanded French dédain therein expressed: https://www.lemonde.fr/m-le-mag/article/2020/09/18/thomas-chatterton-williams-glenn-loury-coleman-hughes-les-anticonformistes-de-l-antiracisme_6052654_4500055.html
Orwellian dimensions to what is going on, including at Princeton (the nominal home of that imperialist, racist pig Woodrow Wilson). Turns out that some animals are more equal than others. And what people are being charged with is what we used to call “thought-crimes”.
All of this is further proof to me of the incipient chaos of a disintegrating empire, one which will take many down with it. I am even beginning to want to live long enough to see more well-deserved damage on the US body politick. Let the chickens come home, I say, transitioning from Boomer to Doomer.
Cheers,
George