Violence is not a show of strength. It is not a demonstration of power. Violence is what happens in the absence of power. When Donald Trump sent thousands of his loyalists to sack the US capitol, there was undoubtedly a thought somewhere in the desiccated circus peanut of his brain that a show of force would be enough to cower those who refused to give him what he wanted.
I notice that Joe Biden has no hair obsession, he doesn't use little fingers to make a point - and nor does he use funny voices or tilt his head in a quizzical way. The signing of the Orders piled on Biden's Presidential desk - I note that the whole office had been fumigated/re-decorated once Trump was gone - reminds me of the first 100-Days duumvirate of Gough Whitlam and Lance Barnard - here in Australia nearly 50 years ago. Actions to try and bring Australia - after the truly god-awful years of Holt, Gorton and McMahon - well into the 20th century. It really was time - as the election slogan of the time stated. I don't know that foreign policy and wars and blatant self-interest will be all that different from Trumpian ways - I'll need to give it time to settle and then determine my position on it - though I expect the rhetoric at least to be calming!
Just noting that Scott Morrison not only thinks Capt James Cook circumnavigated Australia in the Endeavour but that he also thinks the First Eleven - the First Fleet - had 12 ships. He'd be failing the Citizenship Test if he took it right now I guestimate. How do we manage to get these ignoramuses in the PM position. Is it Murdoch alone - is it the Gina-financed IPA (I read today only three of that "august" "faculty" hold PhDs - yet it passes its essays/policy papers directly to Murdoch Press/the LNP as if in fact a legitimate Tertiary Institute! Actually far, far from it)! Is it the dismissal of Humanities - and History - as a worthwhile area of study for all the insights it offers into how a decent society operates - including exposing the ignorance of marketing? Help us out on this one, John, unless in fact you merely need to point this reader to one of your earlier and pithily comprehensive posts exploring just these issues!
Perhaps it 's the sweet rain-ladened stench of catharsis in the air, but it felt really good to breathe in every wonderful word of this. Cuntpuddle in particular.
and as 'French Kiss' watching the Qanon folk counting down to 'The STORM' on inauguration day seeing them lose their shit when nothing happened.
Hannah Arendt whose collection of short essays Crises of the Republic (1972) I only read last year and whose skills of analysis have only become sharper since Eichmann in Jerusalem. Alarming how relevant her work is these days. I spent alot of time thinking about Power and violence are opposites and I began to understand her argument. I realize this ties into their need to manufacture consent via media control. I was reading Australian academic Alex Cary's 'Taking the Risk Out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty'
Familiar with most of your references but Passerin d’Entrèves? unless you mean Maurizio Passerin d'Entreves the author of The Political Philosophy of Hannah Arendt?
"Un village français" was that the series that the U.K remade in 1982 as 'Allo 'Allo!
I notice that Joe Biden has no hair obsession, he doesn't use little fingers to make a point - and nor does he use funny voices or tilt his head in a quizzical way. The signing of the Orders piled on Biden's Presidential desk - I note that the whole office had been fumigated/re-decorated once Trump was gone - reminds me of the first 100-Days duumvirate of Gough Whitlam and Lance Barnard - here in Australia nearly 50 years ago. Actions to try and bring Australia - after the truly god-awful years of Holt, Gorton and McMahon - well into the 20th century. It really was time - as the election slogan of the time stated. I don't know that foreign policy and wars and blatant self-interest will be all that different from Trumpian ways - I'll need to give it time to settle and then determine my position on it - though I expect the rhetoric at least to be calming!
Just noting that Scott Morrison not only thinks Capt James Cook circumnavigated Australia in the Endeavour but that he also thinks the First Eleven - the First Fleet - had 12 ships. He'd be failing the Citizenship Test if he took it right now I guestimate. How do we manage to get these ignoramuses in the PM position. Is it Murdoch alone - is it the Gina-financed IPA (I read today only three of that "august" "faculty" hold PhDs - yet it passes its essays/policy papers directly to Murdoch Press/the LNP as if in fact a legitimate Tertiary Institute! Actually far, far from it)! Is it the dismissal of Humanities - and History - as a worthwhile area of study for all the insights it offers into how a decent society operates - including exposing the ignorance of marketing? Help us out on this one, John, unless in fact you merely need to point this reader to one of your earlier and pithily comprehensive posts exploring just these issues!
Impotence indeed. A visual for that is this sweet little animation:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CKTgxxoHjqJ/?igshid=64i8rnckqxu9
Perhaps it 's the sweet rain-ladened stench of catharsis in the air, but it felt really good to breathe in every wonderful word of this. Cuntpuddle in particular.
and as 'French Kiss' watching the Qanon folk counting down to 'The STORM' on inauguration day seeing them lose their shit when nothing happened.
Hannah Arendt whose collection of short essays Crises of the Republic (1972) I only read last year and whose skills of analysis have only become sharper since Eichmann in Jerusalem. Alarming how relevant her work is these days. I spent alot of time thinking about Power and violence are opposites and I began to understand her argument. I realize this ties into their need to manufacture consent via media control. I was reading Australian academic Alex Cary's 'Taking the Risk Out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty'
Familiar with most of your references but Passerin d’Entrèves? unless you mean Maurizio Passerin d'Entreves the author of The Political Philosophy of Hannah Arendt?
"Un village français" was that the series that the U.K remade in 1982 as 'Allo 'Allo!