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Finding the historical “Truth”
It’s interesting to notice how easy it is to misunderstand/misinterpret history. Historical “facts” arise from different sources, and it is the historian’s job to sift the documentary evidence and see what kind of balance comes out in the end. And the balance doesn’t necessarily come from the volume of the documentation. Popular lies get reported much more–creating documentary evidence–than the uncomfortable truth. Read more…
Confessions of An Elitist
Two disclaimers: I am not at all party inclined, so if any examples seem unbalanced to you, perhaps the unbalance is with you? No, really, I tried to take examples of both political parties’ representatives follies for the most egregious examples of how insistence on ideological purity combined with political expediency lead to disaster. Second; this is long. I’ve never written a blog post over 3,000 words, and I don’t want to do it again. I just don’t want to work this into three different posts right now (it’s almost 3 AM). You can skip the scientific experiment description around the middle, and the Viet Nam footnote in the end, if you want to get through faster. But if you’re at all interested in the causes of the Viet Nam debacle with its parallels to current situation in Middle East; or if you like to read a description of a simple scientific experiment with surprising results, go ahead and read if you have time. Lean back and immerse in the weirdness of the world.
We have a new dirty “four-letter-word” in this language that I love so much: “Elitist” (those of you, who can count beyond four Read more…
A Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Waste
What’s on your mind? Have you ever seen that line? Quite a few people have.
Have you given much thought to what that Read more…
About Beginnings And Ends
I like to study philosophy (“dabbling”, I guess is what it’s called). It helps me to express myself a bit more precisely, if nothing else. There are some blogs about things more or less related to it that I like to follow intermittently. I’d like to refer you to two discussions on a blog I read now and again; they are about the nature of spirits, and the limitations of analogy. Read more…
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