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.