No one wants to be Speaker of the House that is held hostage by the so-called Freedom Caucus that just wants to burn down government if the House doesn't submit to its radical agenda.
Saturday, October 10, 2015
Friday, October 9, 2015
Grijalva endorses Sanders
Grijalva is the co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. He is the first representative to endorse Sanders. Let's hope the other members of the CPC step up now and do the same.
Freeman on US gun violence and rampant individualism
See Cameron's FB post here:
"These horrific gun massacres in the USA are not a violent transgression of law and order but a symptom of deeper crisis in how the rule of law functions. The recent surge in gun violence is an indication that the inalienable personal freedoms in the very constitution of American society are not grounded in the ethical substance of a common social network of norms and customs that is needed for freedom to flourish. In other words, these isolated individual events are a mirror reflecting back the reality of a hostile, alienated and fragmented social environment. The traumatic exception to the rule of law is actually a manifestation of a schizoid split within it. On the one hand, ineradicable individual rights (e.g. the 2nd Amendment) are running amok because they lack the correlative sense of shared or common values that are needed for a free society to function. And on the other hand these very same personal liberties are now coming increasingly under the threat of a proto-fascist slide into corporate dictatorship. The solution to this schizoid insanity will come from the place we least expect - the protection of those inalienable individual rights that historically constituted the United States now requires the shared responsibility of a popular socialist revolution… We'll see you in communism or we'll see you in hell!"
I'd add that the neo-Commons is the new (and improved) communism.
"These horrific gun massacres in the USA are not a violent transgression of law and order but a symptom of deeper crisis in how the rule of law functions. The recent surge in gun violence is an indication that the inalienable personal freedoms in the very constitution of American society are not grounded in the ethical substance of a common social network of norms and customs that is needed for freedom to flourish. In other words, these isolated individual events are a mirror reflecting back the reality of a hostile, alienated and fragmented social environment. The traumatic exception to the rule of law is actually a manifestation of a schizoid split within it. On the one hand, ineradicable individual rights (e.g. the 2nd Amendment) are running amok because they lack the correlative sense of shared or common values that are needed for a free society to function. And on the other hand these very same personal liberties are now coming increasingly under the threat of a proto-fascist slide into corporate dictatorship. The solution to this schizoid insanity will come from the place we least expect - the protection of those inalienable individual rights that historically constituted the United States now requires the shared responsibility of a popular socialist revolution… We'll see you in communism or we'll see you in hell!"
I'd add that the neo-Commons is the new (and improved) communism.
Syntegrality
Continuing from this post:
There is no mention of the speculative realists in the article or bibliography. Their work on strange mereology, flat ontology and dynamic systems, while maintaining a form of hierarchy, would add a lot to this discussion on how hier(an)archy works.
"As spatial and temporal in-between, bridges and bridging serve not only for coming from one point to another, but help to overcome thinking in points at all" (129).
"A key point in our discussion has been that metaphors integrate reason and imagination and so
are useful for meta-theoretical bridging" (132)
Remember Lakoff & Johnson’s Metaphors We Live By:
There is no mention of the speculative realists in the article or bibliography. Their work on strange mereology, flat ontology and dynamic systems, while maintaining a form of hierarchy, would add a lot to this discussion on how hier(an)archy works.
"As spatial and temporal in-between, bridges and bridging serve not only for coming from one point to another, but help to overcome thinking in points at all" (129).
"A key point in our discussion has been that metaphors integrate reason and imagination and so
are useful for meta-theoretical bridging" (132)
Remember Lakoff & Johnson’s Metaphors We Live By:
Democratic populism scorecard
See this article with the scorecard here. With Clinton now coming out against the TPP and for Wall Street reform, most us wonder why she's flip-flopping from her typical corporate stance. Sanders is why, because she can read the polls showing he is the choice of the populace. The article rates the Dems on populism and Sanders is the clear leader. Plus he's genuine and really means it on these issues, having done so for decades, not minutes. Clinton still doesn't support other populist issues as Sanders always has. See the article for the details. Sanders is the clear choice of the people.
Thursday, October 8, 2015
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