tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post8207037503651268603..comments2023-10-19T21:48:56.560-05:00Comments on meaning in history: The American Regime and Its Moral Groundmark wauckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08247066866195200890noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-78159546189323494342021-07-29T20:31:42.208-05:002021-07-29T20:31:42.208-05:00Lincoln’s War on the South?
Might as well say Rep...Lincoln’s War on the South?<br /><br />Might as well say Republican war against Democrats.<br /><br />To frame the Civil War in this manner is truly to denigrate the history of our country first as a confederacy and then as a republic.<br /><br />Let me ask you this, ya cool with California, Washington, Illinois, Virginia, and New York seceding and creating one or multiple other nations due to TDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02764051812502858667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-15226364713144958112021-07-29T18:31:47.032-05:002021-07-29T18:31:47.032-05:00A cursory reading of Ernest Gellner suggests that ...A cursory reading of Ernest Gellner suggests that a nation can only exist with: 1) a literacy in a common language, 2) a common culture, and, at least initially, 3) closed borders. <br /><br />Quoting Gellner: "Nationalism is primarily a political principle, which holds that the political and national unit should be congruent.<br /><br />Nationalism as a sentiment, or as a movement, can Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-26267744588285090312021-07-29T17:48:40.965-05:002021-07-29T17:48:40.965-05:00I also spent time in Yugoslavia in the years leadi...I also spent time in Yugoslavia in the years leading up to war. The most amazing and striking thing to me during that time, in talking with the people there, was the absolute lack of trust and the suspicion that existed not only between Serbs, Croats, Bosnians, and Slovenes, but between people in towns 5 kilos down the road from one another! Talk about a fragmented society. No wonder "dissonant1noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-10002409195123875642021-07-29T17:37:52.594-05:002021-07-29T17:37:52.594-05:00I have no idea what Arkes' ideas on an "e...I have no idea what Arkes' ideas on an "eternal union" might be. However, that doesn't make his views on the relevance of the Declaration to an understanding of the Constitution nonsense. As for "changing the people", I directly raise that view--not on racial or ethnic grounds, however, but on cultural grounds.mark wauckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08247066866195200890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-70803439812079254072021-07-29T17:02:21.552-05:002021-07-29T17:02:21.552-05:00These ruminations on the Declaration are just a re...These ruminations on the Declaration are just a repeat of the second founding nonsense promoted by Harry Jaffa. The theory is that the real founding was in the Declaration, but that up until 1860 we really didn't have the equality that the Declaration promised, so it was Lincoln's war against the South that finally fulfilled the promise of the Declaration by destroying slavery. <br /><br Testbloggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07004163850873932044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-69882193998909748652021-07-29T17:00:13.650-05:002021-07-29T17:00:13.650-05:00as a frequent "visitor" downrange to the...as a frequent "visitor" downrange to the Former Yugoslavia some 25 years ago, this is not a pretty picture (and I've got plenty of those that I took back in the day, sigh, but I digress). That being said, I keep hoping we are approaching peak insanity in this country, but alas, I see no end in sight...Hotlanta Hippiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16019546809736756263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-16867081990273169812021-07-29T16:22:26.730-05:002021-07-29T16:22:26.730-05:00What will hold the country together, and how long ...What will hold the country together, and how long can that last?<br />Not much, and not long, unless folks like Bill Barr & Mitch allow/ push for the housecleaning that they stopped from happening, after Horowitz's rept. made brutally obvious that said housecleaning was vital. <br />Only then will moderate libs face the music, that any<br />strong Executive power must be accountable to aNanyMousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14452492302514671882noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-18016043451092914002021-07-29T15:49:33.356-05:002021-07-29T15:49:33.356-05:00For individuals, debit... That's what's cu...For individuals, debit... That's what's current holding us together. As long as you can keep people owning money and fearing reposition of their property then we'll keep keeping on. <br /><br />For the states it's more complicated... <br /><br />They're largely beholden to the 2 party system. <br /><br />They're addicted to federal dollars aka funny money.<br /><br />Theredevilmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00256049667739001018noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-16808781068244086892021-07-29T15:05:29.133-05:002021-07-29T15:05:29.133-05:00Who remembers the show "Revolution?" Th...Who remembers the show "Revolution?" The premise: Fifteen years after a permanent global blackout, a group of revolutionaries seeks to drive out an occupying force posing as the United States Government. Hmm, seems to me that we have a whole lot of poseurs in gov't now.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608697421187043479.post-29069326139725994242021-07-29T14:51:02.135-05:002021-07-29T14:51:02.135-05:00When differing "demographics" (as we now...When differing "demographics" (as we now say) no longer agree as to what truths are self-evident? What will hold the country together, and how long can that last?<br /><br />I think recent history of Yugoslavia might be relevant here.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com