Friday, July 9, 2010
Re Thomas M Huber book
Unfortunately, re 'reforms' here, compared to and contrasted with
others, I question whether we even have anything like a kind of 'service intelligentsia', to which Huber referred re the Meiji Restoration and other revolutions.
I will omit describing what kinds of things we have, other than a more modern kind of new Gilded Age, as David Kaiser has noted;
but certainly not, it seems to me, a 'service intelligentsia' associated with it, of the kind to which Huber referred.
Most of the people, who might have gone in that direction, here, were redirected, over the decades, to other things, narrow special interests, sports fannism, you name it, even a debauched Ayn Randism, or several things worse.
Additionally, as, for example, Philip Bobbitt mentioned in a televised interview I saw not so long ago, the American political system is extraordinarily difficult to reform. Certainly, political changes are now impending, but based more on new technological possibilities, which he also mentioned in, I believe, The Shield..., re direct democracy referenda etc., than on a service intelligentsia. These changes also will not necessarily be those which some of us would recommend.
others, I question whether we even have anything like a kind of 'service intelligentsia', to which Huber referred re the Meiji Restoration and other revolutions.
I will omit describing what kinds of things we have, other than a more modern kind of new Gilded Age, as David Kaiser has noted;
but certainly not, it seems to me, a 'service intelligentsia' associated with it, of the kind to which Huber referred.
Most of the people, who might have gone in that direction, here, were redirected, over the decades, to other things, narrow special interests, sports fannism, you name it, even a debauched Ayn Randism, or several things worse.
Additionally, as, for example, Philip Bobbitt mentioned in a televised interview I saw not so long ago, the American political system is extraordinarily difficult to reform. Certainly, political changes are now impending, but based more on new technological possibilities, which he also mentioned in, I believe, The Shield..., re direct democracy referenda etc., than on a service intelligentsia. These changes also will not necessarily be those which some of us would recommend.
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