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[Kulindahr]

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”

― Plato

 

[rareboy]

 

[belamyi]

Assuming by "reading" what truly means reading, that is, understanding and assimilating what one reads.

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In which case, reading IS a crime and a punishment at the same time.

 

[Araucaria]

Assuming by "reading" what truly means reading, that is, understanding and assimilating what one reads.

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In which case, reading IS a crime and a punishment at the same time.

This appears to be a pun on the Title of the Dostoevsky novel Crime and Punishment, no doubt a reversal of the student quip that being assigned the huge tome for reading is a crime and punishment.

 

[Kulindahr]

1430 years ago today, the man who would turn the Catholic church in Rome into the monarchial Roman Catholic Church that claimed the right to rule nations became pope; he is now known as Gregory "the Great".

 

[belamyi]

The very fact that the question is being posed using the mob plural instead of the individual pronoun is already saying something about the answer.

Everyone may like to FEEL sure of actually being "special", without caring much about considering the meaning and effort... and danger of it.

And there is no tyranny not allowed and supported by people: not by mere silent consent, but by the utter laziness of letting the pushier one have their own blunt way, no matter how little reasoning and reasonability behind.

 

[belamyi]

Again, I am not denying that: all I was saying is that "he is second to no one"... known, which does not mean there is not anyone actually making him second, or third: he simply is the outspoken one making a living out of it.
Remember that, in the country of the blind, the one-eyed one is king.
I would like to know whether Chomsky has duly stressed all the full ugly facts involved in what he is referring to there: because it's not like the world is made of poor little sheep oppressed by some bully tyrant, but it's more that there are sheep surrounded by a myriad of little compliant tyrants, whose fearfulness the tyrannic rule knows very well, were not SOME sort of 'oppresive' rule in place, checking the unchecked sad attempts at reasoning that, as a good example, we can see running amok today concerning the pandemic and vaccination policies.
When you are not aware that compliance is not merely doing what others happen to do, when you do not question ALL other daily compliances that you do not consider a tyranny, and when saying something different from mainstream opinion is considered "thinking out of the box", it is also very well possible to consider unique and "genius" anyone who happens to made public ideas that others may have developed better, but have not yet revealed.

 

[belamyi]

Finally, your starry-eyed praise of Dr. Choms reminds me a lot of the one I read in Carlos-Peregrín Otero's introduction to the Spanish version of Noam's "Syntactic Structures"... which is what NC would be known for today, had not he started a second life by protracting his politically engaged discourse, and more or less "disowned" his linguistic program.

 

[belamyi]

Not-thinking: the most dangerously overrated norm

'Feeling' without thinking: dangerously overrated

 

[Peloso]

 

[Peloso]

....ready to fuck shit up

 

[belamyi]

Provide bs solutions are the true bs: propose something without caring whether it is not a bigger bs that whatever you pretend to solve, only because you call it "solution".

As I said, merely criticizing is already a lot for so many people who are not willing to admit there is something to criticize but, even more important, for people who will jump in only for bashing's sake, without willing to realize what is actually at hand... mainly because that criticism might apply even better to them. Just read again what I said: if you look at history, things to not get actually "fixed" so much as evolve, and that change happens to bring what would be "solutions" to old problems. People merely think of it: oh, it's different now, oh, that was in olden times... and, again, it is all anyway temporary, before times swing back to old oppresion or back to old liberties.

As for Noam, yes, that's another issue, he is just the old professor being revered more for his official position as an oracle and, most important, because of the cluelessness of his starry-eyed fangurls.

The problem is that "thinkers" usually are very impressionistic, and bring forth ideas that are not necessarily original, but become famous and "their" ideas" because they are already famous themselves. There is no true deep analysis, no development of what, why, from where, where to... and there would be included too what you might like to consider your "solutions".

 

[belamyi]

 

[purina]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Murphy#cite_note-55

William Francis Murphy (April 13, 1890 – July 19, 1949) was an American Democratic politician and jurist from Michigan. He was named to the Supreme Court of the United States in 1940 after a political career that included serving as United States Attorney General, Governor of Michigan and Mayor of Detroit.
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Opinions differ about him and his jurisprudential philosophy. He has been acclaimed as a legal scholar and a champion of the common man,[27] but Justice Felix Frankfurter disparagingly nicknamed Murphy "the Saint", criticizing his decisions as being rooted more in passion than reason. It has been said he was "neither legal scholar nor craftsman", and he was criticized "for relying on heart over head, results over legal reasoning, clerks over hard work, and emotional solos over team play.

Murphy's support of African Americans, aliens, criminals, dissenters, Jehovah's Witnesses, Native Americans, women, workers and other "outsiders" evoked a pun: "tempering justice with Murphy." As he wrote in Falbo v. United States (1944), "The law knows no finer hour than when it cuts through formal concepts and transitory emotions to protect unpopular citizens against discrimination and persecution."
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a] gay reading of [biographies of Murphy] suggests that Murphy's homosexuality was hiding in plain sight. For more than 40 years, Edward G. Kemp was Frank Murphy's devoted, trusted companion. Like Murphy, Kemp was a lifelong bachelor. From college until Murphy's death, the pair found creative ways to work and live together. [...] When Murphy appeared to have the better future in politics, Kemp stepped into a supportive, secondary role, much as Hillary Clinton would later do for Bill Clinton.[53
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Outside the Hall of Justice is Carl Milles's statue "The Hand of God".[43] This rendition was cast in honor of Murphy and financed by the United Automobile Workers. It features a nude figure emerging from the left hand of God. Although commissioned in 1949 and completed by 1953, the work, partly because of the male nudity involved,[44] was kept in storage for a decade and a half.

 

[belamyi]

 

[belamyi]

 

[belamyi]

 

[belamyi]

 

[Peloso]

 

[belamyi]

^ Blame it on Airbnb