On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 10:42 AM, kirby urner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kirby.urner@gmail.com">kirby.urner@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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Doesn't mention Wittgenstein but you'll see where the puzzle piece fits. Fixed a typo (the -> to).</div><div style="font-size:13px;padding-left:4px;padding-bottom:3px;padding-right:0px">
<br></div><div style="font-size:13px;padding-left:4px;padding-bottom:3px;padding-right:0px">Recent reading: Clear and Queer Thinking: Wittgenstein's Development and His Relevance to Modern Thought</div>
<div style="font-size:13px;padding-left:4px;padding-bottom:3px;padding-right:0px">by Laurence Goldstein, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1999.</div><div style="font-size:13px;padding-left:4px;padding-bottom:3px;padding-right:0px">
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<br></div><div style="font-size:13px;padding-left:4px;padding-bottom:3px;padding-right:0px"><br></div></span></blockquote><br>I've gotten to the part in this book where we read about <br>Hitler. <br><br>There's a rather breathless endorsement of the Cornish <br>
thesis, or theses (there are quite a number of them).<br><br>Laurence seems quite willing to buy a world view in <br>which we might single out and scapegoat two schoolboys <br>for the crimes of a world war. Recess got out of hand.<br>
<br>Do we really want to saddle Wittgenstein and Hitler with <br>these almost superhuman powers? 'The Jew of Linz' <br>makes each a lion-sized magician, both amazing <br>baddies in differently corrupting ways.<br>
<br>Me, I think "the spectator classes" (TV watchers) have <br>their share of the responsibility for whatever great <br>surges, twists of history. It's convenient to have some <br>celebrities to pin it on, but the Zeitgeist is working <br>
through the audience here, channeling a shared<br>psyche.<br><br>Edwin Black is exultant in that one scene, in his <br>history of Baghdad, where the USA team realizes <br>it has the option to just leave, and they do, defusing<br>
a big misunderstanding. He's describing a real <br>incident and an innovative response.<br><br>I also have 'How the Hippies Saved Physics' here<br>with me, on the campus of PLU (Tacoma). This <br>helps connect those Erhard-Heidegger dots to <br>
Kauffman, William Warren Bartlett III i.e. players <br>closer to our own time.<br><br>Kirby<br><br></div>