New York Times says healthcare is killing the American dream

 What killed the American dream was the liberal international globalist economic order promoted and sponsored by the New York Times and other globalist left liberal and conservative propaganda organs both before and after World War II, not chickenshit healthcare costs in second quarter 21st century.

Here is a new aspect of the Daumier drawing that appears at the bottom of this webpage in two places

 One of the interesting things, the many interesting things about this drawing is that many of the portrayals in it were transformed by Daumier overtime. Researching his caricatures of Asians in a  number of his graphic works, there are a fair number of caricatures of Asian subjects.

It could be seen that this drawing, which I believe to be the earliest, depicts the young woman in the front row explicitly as an Asian in the style of Daumier's other Asian subjects. 

This is the drawing at bottom.

This is a later print of an original litho or painting of the same subject.

THE PROGRESS OF HUMAN OBSOLESCENCE AFTER THE ONSET OF AI

BILLIONS ARE ALREADY ECONOMICALLY OBSOLETE.

AI MEANS BILLIONS MORE.

TIRING TRADERS CASHING IN THEIR CHIPS

African muslim hindu and mulattos all coming out against NYT 1619 project white only racism they easily target now after NYT paved the way

 How easily they forget their long bitter racist animosities, both within and across the color and religion lines when the line up against what NYT says has been the author of their historic subjection and oppression, forever, going back not only to North America negro slavery but also to the stone age.

Mahatma Gandhi was one of the great Hindu racists haters against Africa negroes and all others. 

Why MLK, another racist, negro racist, like black Muslims like Malcolm X, as New York City Mayor Eric Adams said the other day,  in his subdued way, chose Gandhi to emulate is something of a mystery to most people; but I can explain it easily.

I CAUTIONED ON THIS BLOG NYT AND OTHER SO CALLED LIBERAL JEWISH ORGANS TO STOP USING NEGROES AS PROXIES FOR ANTI SEMITISM

 AND STOP PLAYING BOTH SIDES OF THE STREET ON ISRAEL, A RACIST REGIME IN DISGUISE.

THE NYT DID NONE OF THAT.

THE LIERALISM OF THE NYT AND OTHERS HAS ENABLED ENEMIES OF ISRAEL AND OF ALL JEWS TO CAMP OUT PERMANENTLY HERE AND MAKE WAR HERE ON ANYONE THEY SELECT.

THEY HAVE MADE THEIR LIBERAL BED.

POST HOLOCAUST LEFT AND LIBERAL JEWS IN THE US AND ELSEWHERE HAVE PORTRAYED RACE AS A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT

 not as an objective physical group of genetic characteristics,

and it has been portrayed by them as merely a social construct, created only by white people, and by no other races, in order to justify and rationalize their alleged unique oppression of Africans people in the colonial period, but really extending throughout history and pre history, and including not merely that of African slaves brought to America and the Western Hemisphere and the Middle east.

In the 1619 project formulation all white people are guilty of original sin against all non white people who are innocent of the taint of racism themselves.

Nicholas Wade has a useful chapter on the evolution of the concept and investigation of races back into the 19th century. 

He discusses how several exiled or refuge Jewish social scientists, having fled the holocaust and determined to undermine the very idea of the obvious objective reality of racial differences, created the notion that the concept of racial differences itself merely a white racist social construct.  A Troublesome Inheritance.

HISTORY NEVER REPEATS ITSELF. IT CAN NEITHER SPEAK NOR ACT.

NYT SAYS PRESIDENCY TOO POWERFUL GUESS WHAT HAS LONG BEEN REALLY TOO POWERFUL: THE NEW YORK TIMES

WHY NOT REPOST THIS GREAT ACCOUNT FROM RANDALL COLLINS

COLLAPSE OF THE TUTORIAL-PROXY STATE: AFGHANISTAN 2021, PHILIPPINES 1942, VIETNAM 1975 AND OTHERS

WHAT WERE ONCE INTRACTABLE INTRA CIVILIZATIONAL INTRA RACIAL RELIGIOUS/ETHNIC CONFLICTS

 are now being overlain by cross civilizational racial, ethnic, and religious dimensions simultaneously.

These conflicts will prove to be insoluble either in the short run or the long run.

The past experiences, of large but more limited conflicts that have been intra civilizational, such as the Wars of the Reformation, demonstrate that they have been persistent, divisive, and almost perpetual once set under way after 1500. 

They defy both multistate consolidation, and especially the even further utopian ideal of melting pot globalization, and bedevil both multistate and empire collapses indifferently.

RE TRUMP AND TRADE POLICY AND THIRD WORLD BACKWARDNESS YOUR READING LIST ADDITIONS

 ECONOMICS AND WORLD HISTORY, MYTHS AND PARADOXES,

THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE THIRD WORLD SINCE 1900

PAUL BAIROCH, CHICAGO; 

UCLA BERKELEY

I AM JUST GOING TO CUT THROUGH A LOT OF BULLSHIT THAT HAPPENED SINCE GERMANY SENT LENIN INTO RUSSIA

 UKRAINE WAS,AND HAD FOR CENTIRIES BEEN PART OF OLD RUSSIA, AS WAS CRIMEA.

LENIN WRONGLY BARGAINED IT AWAY INTO AND AS A SEPARATE ENTITY,  AS PART OF A DEAL OF ADHESION WITH A STRONGER GERMANY, TO GET THE HELL OUT OF WWI AND NOT TO HAVE GERMANY INVADE RUSSIA DURING LENIN'S TAKEOVER CIVIL WAR.

THE TREATY WAS CALLED BREST LITOVSK.

IDEOLOGIES ONCE ENTRENCHED ARE FATEFUL IN THE EXTREME AND VERY DIFFICULT TO BACK AWAY FROM

FRANCIS APPARENTLY PACKED THE COLLEGE OF CARDINALS

 WITH A RECORD NUMBER OF NEW THIRD LOSER POVERINO WORLD COUNTRY OF COLOR  BISHOPS.

JUST WHEN WE SHOULD DEFUND AND OFFSHORE THE UN,

THE VATICAN GOES IN THIS INCLUSIVIST MELTING POT EQUALITARIAN BLUNDERING DIRECTION.

RATZINGER WAS A LOT BETTER.

IF THE ENLIGHTENMENT WAS A REAL OBJECTIVE THING IN THE 18 TH C,

 THEN CERTAINLY ASS ROAST PHYSICS

AND ITS IMPLICATIONS, IS A REAL THING IN THE 21ST C.

WHEN NEW YORK TIMES JOURNALISM BECOMES BELIEF: GET USED TO IT FINALLY AFTER ALL THESE DECADES OF THIS SHIT

WHY NOT FINALLY CONDUCT A PRESIDENTIAL SPONSORED INQUIRY INTO THE HIGHLY SUSPICIOUS DEATH OF GENERAL GEORGE PATTON!

 AND WHILE WE ARE ON THE SUBJECT:

WHY NOT INITIATE AN INQUIRY AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS REGARDING WHY HE WAS RELIEVED OF COMMAND DURING WWII,

 JUST WHEN HE WOULD HAVE BEEN THE MOST VALUABLE FIELD COMMANDER REGARDING WHAT ROLLED OUT IN GERMANY AND EASTERN EUROPE!

ALMOST NO AMERICANS KNOW THE REAL HISTORY OF THIS SAD DEBACLE.

READ TARGET PATTON. IT TOUCHES SOME OF WHAT MUST HAVE GONE ON BEHIND THE MASK.

PASSOVER CITATION FOR GENTILES

 E P SANDERS,

THE HISTORICAL FIGURE OF JESUS

CH 16 JESUS' LAST WEEK

THE WEEKS BEFORE PASSOVER AND THE PURIFICATION REQUIREMENTS ARE REQUIRED READING IN THE CONTEXT OF THE LIFE OF JESUS.

MAYBE THE NYT ISN'T ALL POWERFUL AFTER ALL, OR IS IT?

WHEN DID FREEDOM OF SPEECH EXPRESSON ASSEMBLY AND PRESS BECOME DANGEROUS PROPAGANDA?

 WHEN WERE THEY EVER NOT?

NEW YORK TIMES: WHEN EDITORIAL POLICY BECAME OBSESSION?

 WHEN WAS IT EVER NOT?

WHEN OBSESSION BECAME TIMES OF LONDON LA TIMES WASH POST AND NYT LOCKSTEP LIEO EDITORIAL POLICY

TRUST ME YOU DO NOT KNOW THE ANSWERS, OR WHY.

WAY ABOVE YOUR PAY GRADE.

take a look at Randall Collins' blog The Sociological Eye

 Collins did some great analytic articles on the concept of charisma, and personalities as examples.

These are essential reading.

His distinctions, especially beween front stage and backstage charisma are critical.

Also look at his critical discussions of revolutions in several articles. This is also critical reading.

Collins also wrote a great book, trying to coopt the discipline of philosophy itself within sociology.

(This is really for intellectuals, which do not exist here, and which you are not.)

The Sociology of Philosophies

Collins covered all of world history re the sociology of philosophies.

In all his 1,100 or so pages, and Collins was very liberal in including everything, there is no mention of anything like "African Civilization philosophy" of any kind shape or color.

AUSTRALIA TURNS DOWN FOR THE MOMENT CHINA'S OFFER TO LOCK LOINS AGAINST US TARIFFS

 CHINA TRIED TO MAKE THEM AN OFFER THEY COULDN'T REFUSE, AS AUSTRALIA'S LARGEST TRADING ENEMY, 

CALL IT SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY!

KILL TO EAT MOST PEOPLE THINK GREEDY ENTREPRENEURS OR WALL STREET GRIFTERS OR LAWYERS

 LET'S GET REAL

LET'S TALK AFRICA!

OR BORNEO!

THE REAL OVERPOPULATION UNSKILLED SAVAGES......

NEWT HAD CALLED HIS FELLOW REPUBLICANS CANNIBALS.

IN SOME WAYS, HE WAS RIGHT.

CANNIBALS WITH SILVER SPOONS.

"WHITE CANNIBALS"

A FEW REPUBLICANS FOUND IN CANADIAN SECTOR HAVE ALREADY BEEN DEVOURED BY ONE SIDE OR THE OTHER.

CONGRESS HAS WHITE MEAT AND DARK MEAT ENOUGH FOR AT LEAST SEVERAL LEAN YEARS.

BUT MAKE NO MISTAKE

BOTH SPECIES OF PARTY CAT ARE LEAN AND HUNGRY

THE NYT THREW DOWN ITS GAUNTLET IN THIS CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS AND RACES AGE WHEN IT PUBLISHED THE 1619 PROJECT

 And promoted anti white civilization history materials for public schools.

The argument of The 1619 project, that only white people are guilty of original sin of racism in general, has been taken up as a crusade by every other civilization and race on earth which had not already hoisted an anti Western Civilization banner itself based on slavery and/or colonialism.

Many Liberal Americans, especially those who believe in original sin, which Jews  (a separate race by their own terms) either secular or orthodox do not, have long admitted their inherited guilt; according to the 1619 project all white Americans are guilty of the original sin of white racism (racism not shared by any other race) whether they thinks so or not, not innocent until proven guilty,

and the only issues left, from their confession or nonadmission, are reparations, retribution, and revenge and counter domination of Western Civilization. Those are the alternatives. 

Not assimilation. Not western liberal universalism. Those were never really truly on the table, except in the liberal Western mind.

One of the myths in the 1619 project is that African slaves built America, and thus are now entitled to inherit it. 

(American Indians got treated differently and got chickenshit federal separate nation status.....Wonder why?  Any way you cut it, they are a separate race or subspecies, going back to Siberia 15,000 years ago)

This is now actually being taught, with NYT educational materials, in public schools.

That may explain, but only in one small way, why Trump is dissolving The Department of Education.

JUST THINK OF THIS AS INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING WAY ABOVE YOUR PAY GRADE

TRUMP MENTIONED TODAY IN NETANYAHU PRESS CONF WHY FIRST PART OF YOUR READING LIST IS IMPORTANT

 I HAD NOT BEEN ABLE TO THINK HOW TRUMP CAME UP WITH HIS IDEAS ON UNFAIR TRADE AND TRADING AGAINST AMERICAN INTERESTS.

TODAY I FOUND OUT, AND SO DID YOU.

HE MENTIONED TODAY IN ANSWER TO A REPORTER'S QUESTION THAT HE HAD BEEN STUDYING TRADE PLICY AND THE UNFAIRNESS OF IT, AND THE HISTORY OF TRADE POLICY FOR 35 YEARS.

THAT IS ALMOST AS LONG AS I HAVE.

THAT IS WHY THE FIRST ENTRIES IN "YOUR READING LIST" ARE IMPORTANT, 

BECAUSE THEY ALSO HAPPEN TO SET OUT TRUMP'S REASONING FOR HIS POLICY,

 WHICH SEEMS NOT TO HAVE BEEN GIVEN TO HIM IN ANYTHING LIKE THIS AGGRESSIVE KNOWLEDGEABLE AND DESPERATE TRADE, COMPETITIVENESS, AND INDUSTRIAL POLICY CRUSADE, EITHER BY ANYONE ELSE IN HIS ADMINISTRATION OR OUT.

YOUR READING LIST

 MITI AND THE JAPANESE MIRACLE, CHALMERS JOHNSON

THE GLOBAL TRAP 

THE WAR FOR WEALTH, GABOR STEINGART

TRADING PLACES, PRESTOWITZ

THE HUNDRED YEAR MARATHON, PILLSBURY

TRADING AMERICAN INTERESTS,FOREIGN AFFAIRS, ECKES

VAN WOLFEREN, AUTHOR

AMERICAN TRADE POLICY. ALFRED E ECKES

COLONISTS IN BONDAGE, WHITE SERVITUDE AND CONVICT LABOR IN AMERICA 1607-1776

GOVERNMENT AND LABOR IN EARLY AMERICA, RICHAARD B MORRIS

CHALMERS JOHNSON. AUTHOR

PAUL BAIROCH

THE COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE OF NATIONS, MICHAEL PORTER, LITTLE BIT OF BULLSHIT HERE BUT NEED TO READ...

MANUFACTURING MATTERS

ALEXANDER HAMILTON

WIKIPEDIA: PROTECTIONISM, TARIFF, MERCANTILISM

TERMS SEARCH THIS BLOG: FATTENING THINGS UP, NIXON SHOCK, THE WAR WITH NO NAME, TLF, BELT AND ROAD, GUNDLACH, THOMAS SOWELL, STOKELY CARMICHAEL, CRITICAL RACE THEORY, 1619, GASTARBEITER, NATO, WORLD BANK, BRETTON WOODS, KINDLEBERGER, ALGER HISS, SMOOT HAWLEY, HOOT SMALLEY, CHARLES P KINDLEBERGER, DAVOS, CFR, MILNER GROUP, TIMES OF LONDON, RHODES SECRET SOCIETY, BILDERBERG GROUP, BILDERBERG MEETINGS WIKIPEDIA, THE GLOBAL TRAP, THE 1619 PROJECT, THE AMHERST COMMON LANGUAGE GUIDE,  ETC

HUNTINGTON, THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS

GEORGE FRIEDMAN MEREDITH LABARD, THE COMING WAR WITH JAPAN, ETC

THE HAUNTED WOOD, VENONA

THE ENLIGHTENMENT, J C D CLARK, THE WHOLE BOOK IF YOU ARE THAT ENDANGERED SUBSPECIES, AN INTELLECTTUAL; OTHERWISE ONLY PARTS OF PART III

A TROUBLESOME INHERITANCE; BEFORE THE DAWN, NICHOLAS WADE

WHO WE ARE AND HOW WE GOT HERE, DAVID REICH, BUT BEWARE HIS OVERLY LIBERAL GLOSS ON ARCHAIC HUMAN PREHISTORY

THE ANGLO-AMERICAN ESTABLISHMENT, GHOST AUTHOR "CARROLL QUIGLEY (BILL CECIL RHODES SCHOLAR CLINTON'S HERO)

IN TERMS OF A LIBERAL SECULAR GLOBALIST ENLIGHTENMENT MYTH, CREATED ONLY IN THE LATE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES NOT THE 18TH C, 

THE 20TH C EMERGENT SEXUAL LIBERATION ENLIGHTENMENT MYTH SPLINTER POLE AND ITS AFTERMATH TURNED INTO AND  RESULTED IN SUCH THINGS AS MORE SODOMY FOR BOTH SEXES, HEMORRHOIDS FOR BOTH, MORE COLON AND ANAL CANCER AND AIDS ETC FOR BOTH, REDUCED POPULATION, AND MANY OTHER MENTAL , SEXUAL RELATIONS, A CULTURAL AND SEXUAL MELTING POT PROGRAM, AND SOCIAL TRANSGENDER ISSUES AND CONSEQUENCES.

LEAVING ASIDE A CHILDISH LOCKEIAN "ENLIGHTENMENT" ACCOUNTING OF PLEASURE VS PAIN, SODOMY TURNED OUT TO BE A BAD BIRTH CONTROL CHOICE FOR UNTOLD WOMEN.

RACIAL DIFFERENCES ARE QUITE REAL, NOT SOCIAL CONSTRUCTS, NOT CRITICAL RACE THEORY, NOT UNIRACIAL ORIGINAL SIN.

RACE FOIBLES ARE ALSO QUITE REAL: 

JESSICA KRUG PRETENDING TO BE A NEGRO

ELIZABETH WARREN PRETENDED TO BE A POCAHONTAS INDIAN

TRUMP'S LIBERATION DAY SPEECH

 How has he found background materials to put into this wonderful scathing, really scalding condemnatory rhetoric and  words so many of my long held positions on trade, commerce, protectionism, and launch anti globalist economic and strategic pushback? 

Certainly Bannon, by himself, is hardly enough to have come up with this thoroughgoing and multifaceted crusade.

FINALLY THERE IS A PRESIDENT WHO SEEMS TO SEE SOME OF WHAT I HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT SINCE 1978 AND WRITING HERE SINCE 2009

Sunday, March 20, 2011

RE MERCILESS GLOBAL MARKETS THOMAS FRIEDMAN PICKING WINNERS THE WAR WITH NO NAME BEHIND THE COLD WAR HAS NOW BEEN LOST

Some globalist pundits are now talking about what the future holds for their kids, backpedaling fiercely against the global economic and military tsunami they extolled the virtues of for decades, now barreling down on them, and their children, and their childrens' children, and us, and ours. 

I am going to spell out a few things that they should have been thinking about for a long long time, since the mid 60s at least.

Has it been wise, if you were worried about the world for your kids, to put off your domestic labor issues, to put government against labor as a class in favor of management, to favor foreign over domestically produced goods, to allow your corporations to offshore jobs, and then factories, and then major investments;

has it been wise to think mainly only in relatively short term profitability, as a criterion, for anything, anything, if you were worried, really worried, about your kids, or their kids?

Let's talk briefly about the issue of labor and unions.

Offshoring capacity, and buying foreign goods and services, not only puts your own domestic work force out of work permanently, but also puts the labor force and capital investments of your new global economy at the political, ideological, economic, ethnic, civilizational, and military command of foreign governments, 

which can change, sometimes quite drastically, sometimes to a political stance contrary to your wishes, sometimes almost overnight, 

always however, it seems, transforming fairly quickly, say in 20 years nowadays, the lapse of one generation, 

from a cheap source of labor or materials into a more expensive, and adversarial, competitor. 

That has been the pattern over and over again now for at least 50 years.

How do you 'bust', or for that matter, defend, a foreign labor force, when a foreign regime supports other pressing agendas; like taking over world domination; or dominating its neighbors where you also may have large investments; or dominating your other markets; or dominating your domestic market; or controlling, or taking over your domestic political system, against your own narrow corporate interests, just for a few little examples?

That all kind of starts to sound a great deal worse than would have been simply dealing with domestic management and labor issues in the first place, and trying to keep as much production and consumption as possible domestic, and to build a stronger well integrated domestic economy. 

Many other implications beside labor or unions flowed from foreign investment, trade concessions, and offshored production. The process really started before WW II, and accelerated with the Marshall Plan, and then especially with Cold War trade and market concessions.

Most people (I mean mainly intellectuals now; almost no one reads Fukuyama in reality) do not know it, they read things like The End Of History And The Last Man, and follow people like Fukuyama, and actually believe that the US, and its ideology 'won' what it calls the Cold War. 

Pundits like Thomas Friedman actually buy this 'Whig Interpretation' (see Butterfield's sense of the term); 

and Prestowitz follows Fukuyama and Friedman in Rogue Nation, buying Friedman's foolish pronouncements, and giving a credibility to Fukuyama's bizarre idealogical positions.

Contrary to their rather puerile views, my view is that The War With No Name that has quietly been waged 'by other means' as Clausewitz so aptly had put it ("War is not merely a political act, but also a political instrument, a continuation of political relations, a carrying out of the same by other means") simultaneously with the Cold War, call it 'The War For Picking Winners In The World Of The Future', has now been lost.

More on these themes shortly.

Terms search Krugman Thomas Friedman David Brooks Milton Friedman Fukuyama Chalmers Johnson Prestowitz Eckes Fallows Van Wolferen Ohmae George Friedman Meredith LeBard Maverick Executive Mise en scene cartoon Macaire

GENERAL ZHENYU

Thursday, February 7, 2019

A PROPOS WORDS OF WISDOM DK COMMENTS

'"(As for the United States) for a relatively long time it will be absolutely necessary that we quietly nurse our sense of vengeance....We must conceal our abilities and bide our time."--

Lieutenant General Mi Zhenyu, Vice Commandant, Academy of Military Sciences, Beijing.'

THE NYT IS SAYING THIS IS A WORLD THE PANDEMIC CREATED IT IS A WORLD THE US CREATED BY OFFSHORING MILITARY WEAPON LEVEL TECH TO CHINA UNDER FAUCI

IS ATTACKING GOVERNMENT ALWAYS GOOD POLITICS?

THE FAR BETTER AND MORE USEFUL QUSTION IS:

IS GOING AFTER GOVERNMENT ALWAYS GOOD JOURNALISM?

THE ANSWER THAT CONSERVATIVE ERECT AND UPTHRUSTING ORGANS HAVE LONG CHANTED FOR MANY DECADES, BUT ONLY TO THEMSELVES IS:

YES YES YES!

THEY HABITUALLY, SNAKELIKE, JAM THE FIRST AMENDMENT AND FREE SPEECH AND FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION UP EVERYONE'S ASS BUT THEIR OWN.

THIS POST IS ALSO DEDICATED TO RANDY FERTEL, WHO SHOULD UNDERSTAND.

RE NYT LIBERAL SO TO SPEAK EDITORIAL: IS GOING AFTER GOVERNMENT ALWAYS GOOD POLITICS?

THE FAR BETTER AND MORE USEFUL QUSTION IS:

IS GOING AFTER GOVERNMENT ALWAYS GOOD JOURNALISM?

THE ANSWER THAT THE NYT AND OTHER LIBERAL ERECT AND UPTHRUSTING ORGANS HAVE LONG CHANTED FOR MANY DECADES, BUT ONLY TO THEMSELVES IS:

YES YES YES!

THEY HABITUALLY, SNAKELIKE, JAM THE FIRST AMENDMENT AND FREE SPEECH AND FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION UP EVERYONE'S ASS BUT THEIR OWN.

THIS POST IS DEDICATED TO RANDY FERTEL, WHO SHOULD UNDERSTAND.

CHINA BLAST FROM THE PAST

Thursday, February 7, 2019

A PROPOS WORDS OF WISDOM DK COMMENTS

'"(As for the United States) for a relatively long time it will be absolutely necessary that we quietly nurse our sense of vengeance....We must conceal our abilities and bide our time."--

Lieutenant General Mi Zhenyu, Vice Commandant, Academy of Military Sciences, Beijing.'

Saturday, October 21, 2017

CHINA AS GLOBAL CITIZEN

It really is a sort of similar thing to what I was saying, back then, about Japan's intentions, which remain the same, 30 years ago now, all over again, but now in a much much more serious situation, going forward, than 1985.

http://williamacallahan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10Callahan-TX-ISR-08.pdf

Take a look at p 750. This was cited in Pillsbury, Ch 1 fn 36

Here is an especially wholesome and charming passsage about global citizenship:

In current discussions of world order, it is popular to see traditional China as a benevolent and magnanimous empire that provided peace and stability for centuries before the arrival of Western imperialism in the nineteenth century. This narrative is now used in Chinese and Western IR texts to explain why China is not a threat to world order in the twenty-first century (Li 1999; Zhang 2001;Kang 2007). Yet this comparison of a war-mongering Westphalian Europe with a peace-loving imperial China employs a very narrow definition of ‘‘war’’ as an inter-state phenomena, and a very shallow understanding of China’s historical experience (Kang 2003:65–66; Hui 2008). Actually, the Chinese state was often engaged in violent interactions with states and semi-states along its frontiers. In its first century, the Qing dynasty (1644–1911) expanded massively in the west, including a struggle over the northwest frontier with Czarist Russia and the Mongolian Zunghar state that lasted into the 1770s. Rather than being a case of Western imperial incursion into China (as it is presented in China’s modernhistory textbooks), this episode is better understood as a violent struggle between three empires—the Manchu Qing, Czarist Russia, and the Mongolian Zunghar—which resulted in the annihilation of the Zunghar as a people

LETS JUST TURN AND FACE IT

 Locke wa never the kind founding father that Americans later have thought they had had.

He was actually in favor of chattel slavery, owned big investments himself in the Africa Company and the africa slave trade, did not consider all humans equal, did not favor universal or even expanded suffrage or womens suffrage, was hostile to both the Anglican and Catholic churches, and had many other English Puritan Latitudinarian Dissenter and armed revolt option revolutionary views.

NOW THAT J C D CLARK'S BOOK THE ENLIGHTENMENT IS PUBLISHED

 I want to make the argument that, in so jangled a history of historiography, there should be a pride of place, such as it might be, for the traditional discipline of philosophy, as a meta discipline,  regardless of how naarrowed and specialized as Clark asserts it has now become.

He cites Locke's under labourer theory of philosophy, ostensibly with approval, but ironically, for his own work here. 

This had been a passage quoted by Peter Winch in The Idea of a Social Science and its Relation to Philosophy.

Nevertheless, ultimately, there is less point in doing such a truly stellar job of clearing the ground, for natural  science, or for anything else, for that matter, in order to disclose a clearer and more accurate account of history warts and all, if there is not, somehow, some higher purpose or purposes to be served than admittedly doing very great critical and reconstuctive historiography.