Writing about Sarah Palin and more recently enjoying parodies of Glenn Beck I’ve been thinking on and off about political theater. Or rather, how difficult it is to separate politics and theater. We make sense of the world via narrative. It’s not a crutch – it’s how we get around. The proper response to Beck [...]
The Browser is my favorite site of the moment. The below excerpts are taken mostly from it. · “I argue that dreaming is not a parallel state but that it is consciousness itself, in the absence of input from the senses…” – Dr. Rodolfo Llinás as quoted in The New York Times. Amazon reader reviews of [...]
Timothy Garton Ash: [The Velvet Revolution], might be contrasted with an ideal type of 1789-style revolution, as further developed in the Russian Revolution of 1917 and Mao’s Chinese revolution. The 1789 ideal type is violent, utopian, professedly class-based, and characterized by a progressive radicalization, culminating in terror. A revolution is not a dinner party, Mao [...]
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