http://www.nationalreview.com/article/3 ... mas-sowellHiggenbotham wrote:http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Eco ... 90213.html
Water, wheat, weather and the wasting process of pure intent.
Plato and his cavemen. Another marker has appeared. That is two since last November IMO.
The voice of the voiceless: During the late 1960s and 1970s the Soviet politburo and the KGB, led by Yuri Andropov, waged a campaign of terror, repression, and disinformation against Solzhenitsyn. One example: the KGB detained and so brutally interrogated one of the author's typists, Elizaveta Voronyanskaya, that she broke down and divulged where a copy of The Gulag Archipelago was hidden. In despair, she committed suicide.
http://www.iep.utm.edu/arendt/ The Western World is on trial and they cannot even understand that fact. They have no idea what
has already been seen.
atrophy of the principles of citizenship and deliberative consensus that had been the heart of the democratic political enterprise.
This is why we organize to bear light in darkness.
Drawing on the Aristotelian distinction of the oikos (the private realm of the household) from the polis (the public realm of the political community), Arendt argues that matters of labor, economy and the like properly belong to the former, not the latter.
failed to exercise his capacity of thinking, of having an internal dialogue with himself, which would have permitted self-awareness of the evil nature of his deeds. This amounted to a failure to use self-reflection as a basis forjudgement, the faculty that would have required Eichmann to exercise his imagination so as to contemplate the nature of his deeds from the experiential standpoint of his victims. This connection between the complicity with political evil and the failure of thinking and judgement inspired the last phase of Arendt’s work, which sought to explicate the nature of these faculties and their constitutive role for politically and morally responsible choices.
