- Exploded.
- Co-opted by convenience
- Daily duh
- Western philosophy as white supremacism
- Sleeping through the alarm.
- Tomorrow is a High Egoslavian Holy Day, so early weekend links, not the person who's covered below, that's the 30th, and this the best cover of anything anytime
- Mueller, Pelosi, and Trump's likely triumph
- People who think Trump's racism isn't a political plus for him, Democrats waiting for Trump to hang himself
- Some unsystematic opinions
- Five forms of retreat
- New Wawa in neighborhood I grew up in?
- The way to keep going in Antarctica
- The role of proper names
- One draft uneditable poem below song by Pjoepf of Vriecyh, bigger here
i read 'the way to keep going in antarctica' by bernadette meyer
ReplyDeletethe title reminded me of
http://mistahcharley.blogspot.com/2012/07/dont-give-up.html
the line
Our own ideas of food, a Wild sauce
reminded me of tate's story of the wild cheese - annotated, compared, and contrasted under the title Parables of the Powerful and their Pawns in the comments at
https://www.blckdgrd.com/2019/01/2019-january-9.html?showComment=1547133591624#c3210577243381945842
and speaking of meals in the poetry of james tate - i notice canned beans appear more than once in his last collection "the government lake" - which every tate enthusiast should read
Fine art that problematically fails to address the central question: Who is the Walrus?
ReplyDeleteIt's really remarkable how incapable Beltway types are of recognizing how a "case" is made by painstakingly laying out a factual "record"—"bad optics", "doddering old fool", "unclear", "I didn't understand", "Democrats didn't make a good movie out of the book" bullshit. Politics, Journalism, and Political Journalism seem to be suffering from some form of TV-itis, a kind of ADD. Legal work is time-consuming, hard, and requires a special set of skills it takes years to understand and master. Even more so in the public, political context where mass communication is involved. (The R's did a truly effective job destroying Hillary Clinton public image with the drawn out Benghazi nonsense and then the "But her emails!" refrain. They yelled and pointed fingers and falsely accused. And they had no case. The Dems have a real case, IMO. Being methodical in prosecuting it is, indeed, frustrating.)
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of how an argument is made—to wit, by adducing proofs—Crispin Sartwell knows how to make a damn good case. Interesting, though, how he skews the record and even, at the end, points out that well, maybe all those philosophers he cited weren't really white supremacists but people who perhaps misunderstood them or probably misapplied their rationales certainly were, so we should throw out the entire history of western philosophy because of some ignoramuses. Of course, his argument—persuasive on its own terms that it's always fruitful to investigate the premises of philosophical arguments—made me go back and read my own first draft of philosophical positions to try to discern my own vulnerabilities to misreading or misinterpretation or even actual biases. My points don't seem to buy into the dualisms he places at the root of the problem, a truly distinct aspect of early modernist philosophy (Descartes, in particular). Maybe that solves the problem. Maybe not. I'll have to think about it.
Thanks for the linkage! Appreciated as ever.