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What’s going on?
Very busy, so haven’t gotten much further in The Dialectical Imagination, but I do have to say that the distinction between “positive freedom” and “negative freedom” is a useful one to highlight at this point. The comments below make me unsure about the influence of the Frankfurt School on modern socio-political movements, but the ideal of a utopian end state for society which enshrine a vision of the good definitely seems to be one of the things that moderns have lost. Rather, a lot of identity politics talk seems to be about positional games and status competition. The perpetual revolution.
At the suggestion of a reader I purchased Explaining Postmodernism. The Kindle version is $4.99.
There was an ancient DNA convention in England. It turns out that the original Polynesians may not have had much Melanesian ancestry, implying multiple migrations into Far Oceania.
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A Motown master piece from 1971:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s_Going_On_(Marvin_Gaye_album)
What’s Goin’ On
Marvin Gaye
Mother, mother
There’s too many of you crying
Brother, brother, brother
There’s far too many of you dying
You know we’ve got to find a way
To bring some loving here today – Ya
Father, father
We don’t need to escalate
You see, war is not the answer
For only love can conquer hate
You know we’ve got to find a way
To bring some loving here today
Picket lines and picket signs
Don’t punish me with brutality
Talk to me, so you can see
Oh, what’s going on
What’s going on
Ya, what’s going on
Ah, what’s going on
In the mean time
Right on, baby
Right on
Right on
Mother, mother, everybody thinks we’re wrong
Oh, but who are they to judge us
Simply because our hair is long
Oh, you know we’ve got to find a way
To bring some understanding here today
Oh
Picket lines and picket signs
Don’t punish me with brutality
Talk to me
So you can see
What’s going on
Ya, what’s going on
Tell me what’s going on
I’ll tell you what’s going on – Uh
Right on baby
Right on baby
Songwriters: Alfred Cleveland / Alfred W Cleveland / Marvin Gaye / Marvin P Gaye / Renaldo Benson
What’s Goin’ On lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Found Andrew MacLeod’s youtube channel and you might like it.
He does a lot of stuff. Started following him on twitter after I saw a video of a panel he was in with Edward Luttwak, the political analyst.
He is @AndrewMMacLeod on twitter and uploads videos of talks and places he visits.
These two videos on Armenia are pretty interesting. He comments on the second video that if a new war between Islam and the West (secular, Christian) occurs, Armenia would be the battleground.
He mentioned in a recent article he could be related to Trump (ha!): http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/donald-trump-will-win-the-us-presidency-by-a-landslide-dont-underestimate-him-yet-again-a7051686.html
Cultural Marxism attacked the glue that held things together – where things spin off to after the glue is removed is semi-random.
You don’t have to let this go to print.
I don’t know if others have this issue, but your site takes an amazingly long time to load on my smart phone. Even when on a very fast WiFi network, nearly 45 seconds. And it slows all of the other tabs loading at the same time.
I do not have this issue with any other site I visit, and it doesn’t matter which phone I use or which connection I am using.
Just FYI.