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ially as appendages of the market early gazettes contained aside from news about the metropole commercial news when ships would arrive and depart what prices were current for what commodities in what ports as well as colonial political appointments marriages of the wealthy and so forth in other words what brought together on the same page this marriage with that ship this price with that bishop was the very structure of the colonial administration and market system itself in this way the newspaper of caracas quite naturally and even apolitically created an imagined community among a specific assemblage of fellowreaders to whom these ships brides bishops and prices belonged in time of course it was only to be expected that political elements would enter in one fertile trait of such newspapers was always their provinciality a colonial creole might read a madrid newspaper if he got the chance but it would say nothing about his world but many a peninsular official living down the same street would if he could help it not read the caracas production an asymmetry infinitely replicable in other colonial situations another such trait was plurality the spanish american journals that developed towards the end of the eighteenth century were written in full awareness of provincials in worlds parallel to their own the newspaper readers of mexico city buenos aires and bogota even if they did not read each other s newspapers were nonetheless quite conscious of their existence hence a well known doubleness in early spanish american nationalism its alternating grand stretch and particularistic localism the fact that early mexican nationalists wrote of themselves as nosotros los americanos and of their country as nuestra america has been interpreted as revealing the vanity of the local creoles who because mexico was far the most valuable of spain s american possessions saw themselves as the centre of the new world but in fact people all over spanish america thought of themselves as americans since this term denoted precisely the shared fatality of extra spanish birth at the same time we have seen that the very conception of the newspaper implies the refraction of even world events into a specific imagined world of vernacular readers and also how important to that imagined community is an idea of steady solid simultaneity through time such a simultaneity the immense stretch of the spanish american empire and the isolation of its component parts made difficult to imagine mexican creoles might learn months later of developments in buenos aires but it would be through mexican newspapers not those of the rio de la plata and the events would appear as similar to rather than part of events in mexico in this sense the failure of the spanish american experience to generate a permanent spanish america wide nationalism reflects both the general level of development of capitalism and technology in the late eighteenth century and the local backwardness of spanish capitalism and technology in relation to the administrative stretch of the empire the world historical era in which each nationalism is born probably has a significant impact on its scope is indian nationalism not inseparable from colonial administrative market unification after the mutiny by the most formidable and advanced of the imperial powers benedict anderson imagined communities also the thesis what i am proposing is that neither economic interest liberalism nor enlightenment could or did create in themselves the kind or shape of imagined community to be defended from these regimes depredations to put it another way none provided the framework of a new consciousness the scarcely seen periphery of its vision as opposed to centre field objects of its admiration or disgust in accomplishing this specific task pilgrim creole functionaries and provincial creole printmen played the decisive historic role uncategorized america benedict anderson history media the few thousands 1 comment posted by nydwracu on september 11 2014 the british empire is the exercise of the authority and legal right of the british crown and government over sundry territories situated in all parts of the globe and over the various states governments peoples nations tribes and settlers located therein the extent of this empire can be expressed either in terms of territory or in the number of its inhabitants it comprises an area of approximately 13½ million square miles which is populated by some 460 millions of human beings these are drawn from all the principal sub divisions of the human race white black red and yellow and as its name indicates the ultimate dominion over this vast mass is exercised in theory and practice solely by the british with their white colonial kinsmen these number a little more than the odd 60 millions so that on the most favourable view 400 millions of variously coloured peoples are subjected beneath the rule of 60 millions mostly living at other ends of the earth this view however misrepresents the actual state of affairs completely the overwhelming majority of the whites are congregated in a few main centres 47 millions approximately in the british islands and the bulk of the remainder in canada australia and south africa the greater part of the coloured races therefore are ruled in practice by the few thousands of white persons who form part of the official machinery of the british state source uncategorized british empire government history civil wars 4 comments posted by nydwracu on september 10 2014 civil wars are first and foremost about local score settling the trigger isn t some guy going door to door saying you know those yazidis we re starting a group to get rid of them would you like to know why everyone was already itching to kill the yazidis the trigger in most civil wars is the sense that the long repressed vengeance on your nearest and dearest enemies has become possible this means that much of the killing in civil wars follows the demographics of murder rather than genocide civil wars are almost never geographic at first syria was not divided into rebel and government territories until after several weeks of fighting why because the government troops and the people who hated them were evenly dispersed around the country once the shooting broke out some local battles went one way some went another and each side eventually had to work out supply lines connecting places where they 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 ...