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ey d won your loyalties aren t determined by your residency your residency is determined by which army you re running away from there is no home front in a civil war every action by every side degrades the lives of both sides think of the worst divorce you ve ever seen your friends go through and think of the worst moment in that divorce and that s how everybody feels in a civil war all the time civil wars aren t anybody s program usually the two sides each feel like they are legitimate and can t figure out what the other guys are playing at they think shit these guys are clowns lets just get them out of the way everybody underestimates the consequences of their actions the time it will take and the dying that will happen as a result nobody in syria in 2011 was saying right lets call a protest and in three years we ll be holed up in a burning hotel shooting twelve year olds in the head as they pull their mothers bodies from a drainage canal no we aren t headed for a civil war for now the local scores are too stupid to settle what would a red state insurgent mob do if the veil were torn burn coal shoot latinos give it a decade maybe but not now ran prieur i don t buy the last paragraph here are two more quotes congo nobody knows much about it because nobody wants to it s been in the news lately with a new movement called m23 sweeping through eastern congo taking the provincial capital of goma and then promising to withdraw the kind of story you read then drop because you know it ll never make any sense to you the most anyone ll say is durn shame all those dead people it s some tribal thing right well it s a safe bet that this killing is tribal because that s what war is tribal killing when we call african killings tribal what we really mean is that we don t get it the tribal differences seem ridiculous to us in other words they all look alike but when you re inside a tribal division it s different if romney drove through my old neighborhood in bakersfield he d take one look and say trash but when you lived in that neighborhood there were blocks that were like kryptonite to you and others where you were safe houses that were like abode of evil and others that were good country people even when we say a war isn t tribal it almost always is take the us civil war brother against brother except it wasn t brother against brother very often it was two very different tribes yankee and dixie different religions different economies different ethnic groups tribal all the way so yeah it s tribal in congo but no more than most other wars that s not what s made the killing drag on and on like this t he tutsi and hutu traded massacres in rwanda and burundi until 1994 when what most people think of as rwanda happened the hutu who had built a good genocidal organization in rwanda called on their people to kill the tutsi cockroaches the hutu weren t warriors but they were very obedient orderly farmers and the tutsi were dispersed and disarmed so the hutu answered the call and managed to chop and burn 800 000 people to death in a few months it s not easy to kill that many people that fast with nothing but pangas and fire but the hutu went at it like the good little workers they always have been it s always that way the best genocidaires as the french call em are never the big loud macho tribes always the polite educated orderly ones the hutu got the call to kill and rape and steal and they did they still don t know what they did wrong most of the few hutu who ever got called to account said they were just doing what the radio radio thousand hills told them to do it s a myth by the way that people have this thing called a conscience or that they suffer from stress etc after a massacre try reading jean hatzfeld s book machete season and you ll see the main thing the hutu genocidaires feel is regret that they have to answer to a court now and then the whole notion of guilt doesn t cross their minds war nerd the right wing blob why would he be envious of these people again the armchair psychology seems so manifestly inadequate one wonders why the blob bothers accusations of hatred are akin to the right wing blob s favorite trope about bush derangement syndrome it is just a rhetorical trick to dismiss well grounded moral outrage about wrongful conduct one more example from the blogosphere s leading practitioner of condescension from below glenn instaignorance reynolds denounces krugman as a sad and irrelevant little man he does so as best i can tell without any sense of the irony of a middling legal scholar at the university of tennessee who posts on a blog denouncing as sad irrelevant and little a nobel laureate in economics at princeton university who writes for the new york times and of course krugman is so irrelevant that even a throwaway blog post necessitates the right wing blob with its thousands of members to swing into action and so it goes these people are literally devoid of independent thought they are just bits of slime that ooze off the blob when the blob is poked and in the process they do violence to the language stand reality on its head and contribute to the continuing degradation of the public culture brian leiter what is america maybe it s southeast asia with people taking to the hills to escape the state and the state strongly disliking the ornery hill tribes maybe it s the british empire full of peasants who want to preserve themselves but ruled over by a macaulay filled great power that doesn t think the peasants culture is worth preserving or maybe it s the middle east full of religious crusaders who think the backwards satan worshipers in the mountains ought to be made to not exist but one thing is for sure the tribe that reads brian leiter they re the educated orderly ones i don t think it s red state insurgents that we need to worry about secessionists who want to be left alone don t make good insurgents lowland crusaders on the other hand uncategorized america progressivism ran prieur the happening war nerd thomas jefferson was wrong sort of 1 comment posted by nydwracu on september 8 2014 government is just as infallible too when it fixes systems in physics galileo was sent to the inquisition for affirming that the earth was a sphere the government had declared it to be as flat as a trencher and galileo was obliged to abjure his error this error however at length prevailed the earth became a globe and descartes declared it was whirled round its axis by a vortex thomas jefferson notes on the state of virginia source but his general point is still interesting the government in which he lived was wise enough to see that this was no question of civil jurisdiction or we should all have been involved by authority in vortices in fact the vortices have been exploded and the newtonian principle of gravitation is now more firmly established on the basis of reason than it would be were the government to step in and to make it an article of necessary faith reason and experiment have been indulged and error has fled before them it is error alone which needs the support of government truth can stand by itself subject opinion to coercion whom will you make your inquisitors fallible men men governed by bad passions by private as well as public reasons and why subject it to coercion to produce uniformity but is uniformity of opinion desirable no more than of face and stature is uniformity attainable millions of innocent men women and children since the introduction of christianity have been burnt tortured fined imprisoned yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity what has been the effect of coercion to make one half the world fools and the other half hypocrites to support roguery and error all over the earth let us reflect that it is inhabited by a thousand millions of people the problem of course is that belief can carry thedish loading and a multiplicity of mutually opposed thedes can cause problems for a state uncategorized freedom of thought thomas jefferson a seventeenth century one party state 2 comments posted by nydwracu on september 1 2014 elegant and urbane perry miller s works successfully explained the history of puritan massachusetts by evoking a new england mind culled from a narrow range of remarkably abstruse and knotty theological treatises although subsequent scholarship has refuted many of the details and even some of the essentials of miller s vision his basic strategy of explicating the behavior of the bay puritans in terms of their theological beliefs and carefully formulated doctrines has been more than vindicated by its dominant role in the literature of puritan studies as a social historian with pronounced naturalistic inclinations i was deeply troubled by this whole idealist mode of explanation yet there was no denying its success i became obsessed with trying to explain why this strategy was so fruitful in interpreting the saga of new england puritanism in general terms i found myself raising the old cartesian question of interaction to the historical plane namely how did the ethereal elements of the world of ideas and mentalities actually impact the material world of historical events more specifically what were the social and political features of early massachusetts history that gave technical theological doctrines such powerful causal efficacy the most plausible answer to my question came from david hall s and micahel walzer s studies of the puritan ministry sophisticated theological doctrines shaped the history of massachusetts because the educated divines who studied and formulated these doctrines had a preponderant influence over the colony s social and political life this answer raised even more questions how could an educated elite of ministers and magistrates as i learned from timothy breen hold such dominant power in a fledgling colonial settlement granted the deference normally accorded a university degree these educated leaders lacked the large scale property interests normally associated with a ruling stratum wht were the institutional arrangements and practices that facilitated this remarkable empowerment finally why did this elite choose to use their power to impose an order on massachusetts derived from academic theology what did it mean that the bay colony was patterned after a high cultural theory i sought the answers to these questions in the sociology of intellectuals two works in particular alvin gouldner s three volume dark side of the dialectic and george konrad and ivan szelenyi s the intellectuals on the road to class power confirmed my most unsettling hunches professional intellectuals and intelligentsia comprised a collective interest they were the great unexamined class in modern political history whose will to power occasionally took the form of revolutionary ideological politics i had a greater appreciation for michael walzer s claim that the puritan divines were the precursors of the jacobins and bolsheviks this realization undermined my whole conception of the class struggles that underlay modern ideological politics this realization undermined my whole conception of the class struggles that underlay modern ideological politics it also failed to explain the different role and status of the puritan educated elite in massachusetts and england although the clergy was undoubtedly a critical element in the english puritan movement i remained convinced with christopher hill that its ultimate result was a bourgeois revolution that in the last instance served the interests of the landed gentry and urban merchants why did the puritan intellectuals emerge as the dominant political group in massachusetts while their colleagues in england were reduced to the status of ideological cheerleaders as i pored over the primary documents gradually an answer began to emerge massachusetts differed from england in two vital respects first unlike their english counterparts the bay puritans were not a small minority ruling over a divided society much of which was ideologically disaffected by excluding the ungodly the founders of early massachusetts were spared the necessity of either purging or accommodating such elements second the thinking class that contributed to the colony s settlement and foundation was an extremely cohesive and class conscious group they constructed the institutions of church and state to facilitate the transformation of their high cultural and theoretical expertise into social and political power they did this by creating a new form of political authority that i have called cultural domination they legitimated their power by claiming to be the authentic bearers of the puritan cultural and religious tradition through them they insisted the established christian wisdom of the ages would exercise its sway over the new world bible commonwealth while the puritan thinking class in england may have helped initiate the tradition of radical ideological politics their colleagues in the bay created a stable revolutionary regime puritan massachusetts was a seventeenth century one party state darren staloff making of an american thinking class intellectuals and intelligentsia in puritan massachusetts uncategorized darren staloff history massachusetts puritanism cultural domination in puritan massachusetts 1 comment posted by nydwracu on september 1 2014 the puritan ministers created a completely new form of political authority in the weberian sense of legitimate power which i have called cultural domination cultural domination as here conceived requires four formal supports first of all like charismatic authority it requires recognition in the form of ritual election or some similar mechanism of oath swearing or covenant signing fealty is sworn to the correct cultural formation in this case puritan biblicism and the officeholder is empowered only as the specially trained bearer and interpreter of that cultural tradition the laity generally conceive of this high cultural training whether centered around biblicism or some other intellectually legitimating principle like reason or rationality as being endowed with an automatic efficacy that need simply be applied to any problem to generate a univocal solution the biblical truth is eternal and immutable claimed thomas hooker but the alteration grows according to god s most just judgment and their own deservings such belief gives rise to the second formal requirement that officially authorized bearers of the cultural tradition must always agree in their public formulations or at least not disagree if this condition is violated the laity may come to see the cultural tradition as an amorphous collection of expressions or principles manipulated by mandarins for their own aggrandizement the third requirement is that all public expression of the culturally able must be bestowed on these public acts including forced attendance titulary homage and silent obedience finally to ensure the stability of the 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