Remember, You Can Vote for Neither McCain Nor Obama
For those who like Obama because he is so peaceful, here's an odd video. I confess I don't know the context, but does it really matter? (HT2EPJ)
"Pre-Galilean" Foolishness
I am currently reading The Master and His Emissary , which appears to be an excellent book. ("Appears" because I don't know the neuroscience literature well enough to say for sure, yet.) But then on page 186 I find: "Asking cognition, however, to give a perspective on the relationship between cognition and affect is like asking astronomer in the pre-Galilean geocentric world, whether, in his opinion, the sun moves round the earth of the earth around the sun. To ask a question alone would be enough to label one as mad." OK, this is garbage. First of all, it should be pre-Copernican, not pre-Galilean. But much worse is that people have seriously been considering heliocentrism for many centuries before Copernicus. Aristarchus had proposed a heliocentric model in the 4th-century BC. It had generally been considered wrong, but not "mad." (And wrong for scientific reasons: Why, for instance, did we not observe stellar parallax?) And when Copernicus propose...
The context is Obama's plan for mandatory domestic service.
ReplyDeleteWhile I'm not in favor of ANY mandatory service, I suppose a CCC or WPA would be less wasteful than our foreign wars.
I'm thinking some president--not necessarily Obama--will be able to use this "civilian national security force" that is "just as powerful" as the conventional military, to do some serious persuading at home.
ReplyDeletePerhaps, but I consider our actual military and mercenary forces to be a much greater risk.
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