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My take: Using Berger & Luckmann we can helpfully synthesize poli sci results on affect polarization + partisan media/internet/social-media.
also, i tend to talk too much re folks like Voegelin & Ricoeur
or, notes to self from another planet
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14. The enthusiasm of U.S. tech moguls to bow the knee at Trump's inauguration few weeks ago may turn out to be a massive strategic error. Can people outside the U.S. trust U.S. tech any more? That is now an open question. Finis.
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this is all clear and helpful i think. i agree with all of it except maybe something in the isolation near the end. i will try to craft something careful in response. might be a day or so before i can get back.
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People don’t like the government as a whole but are broadly supportive of all kinds of government policies. People are going to start feeling the pain from lack of government services. They need to know who’s to blame here. That’s the Democrats job. 3x
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Turnout looks to be north of 80%.
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clarification: for PD liberalism is a "viral" ideology incompatible with culture. close to the goofiest kind of "ideas have consequences" as they come, if not quite there.
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liberal regimes are produced by Geertzian thick cultures, even for a transplant like post war Japan. this is one reason the post-liberalism of folks like Deneen is so bogus. yes Ziblatt and forbearance. but what is the actual substance of that forbearance? slipping away for us: newt, rush, fox etc.
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Jeffries has one job right now--a make or break chance to make a mess of the budget/reconciliation process. Thus far, he has not missed on his House stewardship, but this one really is a make or break and I do worry he'll botch it. But that should not be visible, nor should he be showing his cards.
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but, let me be quiet for a bit. what sort of experiences do you mean?
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so i think we are likely sharing a lot here, at least at the level of theoretically relevant material. someday i would like to understand much more about how things shook out in Asia. V makes a start at synthesizing in The Ecumenic Age. i will never have his acumen or empirical command. but curious.
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much less bronze age immediacy. theoretically i mean. politically, folks will believe anything, at least for a time. this openness to history and the problematic blessing of novelty is a major topic in my goofy long thread on Hans Joas. i think V gets further than most w his meditations on history.+
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glad to hear it is not totally opaque! the tension you mention is inescapable and theoretically pivotal. what is history? whatever it is, it keeps happening. this is why fundamentalism is such an important analytical concept. there is no going back to Augustine's contempt for action into the world.+
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this is where history as an empirical effort comes in.
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and, to complete a small picture, if things get unsaid, what is the pt of the saying? if propositions are out of order, how can anything be evaluated? wouldn't the obvious nonsense of "experiencing nonobjective reality" be totally at odds with any and all rational or empirical control?
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a risk in theoretical satisfaction is imaginative possession. so one more line from V:
"Regardless of how far we might push the game of objectifying language, we must dissolve it again and again through negation in order to be open for the experience of order as a nonobjective reality."
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an example from V illustrating what i have been trying to get at. the g-word is used here, but not in the way it is used in the discussion among DC, G and K. +
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one more. 3 is a magic number.
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ha! forgot about this one, not so bad
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all these display a kind of equivalence beneath ranging differences. the issue for me seems how to work from my own historicity into the complex. the most familiar aspect of the video is the feeling of personal journey, the form of autobiography which you have already introduced above :)
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something or nothing. quite evidently the world is irredeemable yet "groans." here we are groaning together. the cosmological immediacy of tribe, a Buddhist's nirhoda, a physicalist's universe, Eckhart's medieval glassenheit, Nietzsche's 19th c affirmation of eternal return...
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G seems more occupied with how "belief" & "evidence" can be pitfalls. (at least when he focuses away from physical postulates for saving the appearances w suffering. just as i need to look past a polity re-invested w "pre-axial" weight.) +