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loquitor: i was in a curious mood yesterday and posted a couple things that went way past what i would normally put here. so i suspect that i was not clear (except to myself)---the argument you respond to is different from what you take it to be: i was trying to make a meta-history argument--talking about the status imputed to historical creations in primary and secondary school (for example)---as a way of describing something of the contemporary state of total ideological paralysis--which i think follows to a significant extent from the *relation to* history (as a natural phenomenon not as a social creation)--but i also tangled that up with a much more limited point concerning the question of how and why it is that launching a war on false pretenses is not exactly a criminal action--which invoked a different relation to the same topic. so the post was confusing.
that said, i really do not understand no. 205 from the word "finally" to the end. i cant tell who you are directing it at nor do i understand the point that you are trying to make with it. please explain.
in my more paranoid moments, i wonder if the bush people's attempts to stack the doj with far right partisan hacks is linked to some fantasy coup d'etat scenario---the lynchpin of this is the role played in retro-legal philosophy by carl schmitt, particularly his critique of democratic process as an endless blah blah blah that cannot respond to a state of emergency--only a "decider" can do that.
schmitt is a theorist of dictatorship.
the alarming correlates: the administration seems incapable of distinguishing between political difficulties it experiences itself and notions of collective will--it takes itself as an embodiment of collective will.
from a particular angle, you can see the gridlock in congress, set up by the bizarre results of the last elections, as a kind of ongoing demonstration of this blah blah blah insofar as the composition of both branches effectively makes paralysis inevitable.
fortunately, the administrations structural incompetence has won out once again and this whole business is now exposed...but its meanings are kinda strange, difficult to sort out in a way.
that's why i relegate this whole line of thinking to my more paranoid moments.
but the attempt to stack the doj is more than passing strange, isnt it?
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spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
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