Monday, October 16, 2017
I TOLD YOU SO PILLSBURY'S BOOK AND OTHERS BEFORE IT ETC
Theorists like Bobbitt have been lead, by the mere weight of our own misguided ideology mainly, but also with very skilled and dedicated help from our friends, into a deep blind alley, rather like Plato's Cave, actually perhaps more like Tiberius' Grotto with its improper Homeric and Aeneid Roman dining symbolism, a place where "all members of an inferior race (including Bobbitt) must be devoured by a superior one", (Pillsbury p19) with his War On Terror, Terror and Consent, etc., about what the future might look like...
In that future, you won't, then, be having nice, jurisprudential, discussions about constitutional transformation, the roles of the branches, war powers, tactics, etc.
Nevertheless, one has to gasp at his, Bobbitt's, talent in open discussion. Just take one example, his answer to a question, and he thinks of the example of Jefferson, and the Louisiana Purchase, which Jefferson thought, quite correctly, was unlawful.
More importantly, in the larger scheme of things, the Purchase violated Jefferson's own ostensible principles....., as well as Constitutional constraints......
When you are thinking about America, uniting as a nation, but also as a rag tag bunch of anarchic universalist individuals, starting out very much as a veritable but fragile fortress, and only much later strong enough to push against a so called frontier, contrary to what one sees with Brooks' recent editorial story, on which I have already commented below,
think about these things, too, for a moment.......
Professor Councillor Bobbitt was pleased to acknowledge, at the end, in the audience, his philosopher professor at Princeton, Gilbert Harman, whose daughter was also there, the elder an expert in many fields, but also importantly, a moral relativist...
Nevertheless, one has to gasp at his, Bobbitt's, talent in open discussion. Just take one example, his answer to a question, and he thinks of the example of Jefferson, and the Louisiana Purchase, which Jefferson thought, quite correctly, was unlawful.
More importantly, in the larger scheme of things, the Purchase violated Jefferson's own ostensible principles....., as well as Constitutional constraints......
When you are thinking about America, uniting as a nation, but also as a rag tag bunch of anarchic universalist individuals, starting out very much as a veritable but fragile fortress, and only much later strong enough to push against a so called frontier, contrary to what one sees with Brooks' recent editorial story, on which I have already commented below,
think about these things, too, for a moment.......
Professor Councillor Bobbitt was pleased to acknowledge, at the end, in the audience, his philosopher professor at Princeton, Gilbert Harman, whose daughter was also there, the elder an expert in many fields, but also importantly, a moral relativist...
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