[MD] The Art of Philosophy

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Hi dmb,
I don't think that knee you see jerking is ours.  BHO is no William James.  James Brown? Well maybe.  I do like the rap coming from his mouth, it is a rerun from four years ago.  All those things he is promising to do.  I feel like I am in a time warp again (fade in: The Rocky Horror Picture Show) "Let's do the time warp again..."  The movie has got a devoted following.  Tell me dmb, do you dress up when you sit down to compose a post on your politics?  Do you put all that make up on?  I can see it now: "Let's do the time warp again!"

I even can imagine you doing a dance while you write those words.  "Let's do the time warp again!"  What happened to the last four years?  Was that just a dream?  Is BHO really only running for the fist time?  Sure seems like it from the speeches I hear.  Sure hope he keeps his promises.  That Bush really messed things up.

"Let's do the time warp again". If you have not seen this movie, go see it, I think you will like it.  It is right up your alley.

Cheers,


Mark

On Oct 17, 2012, at 4:49 PM, david buchanan <dmbuchanan at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 
> MRB said:
> Centralized government systems only work for defense and justice-administration - at best.   This is because government is inertial.
> 
> Mark said:
> Yes, and the smallest government possible to administer these things.  This is because of the expense of government.
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> dmb says:
> I'll bet a hundred bucks that neither one of you bothered to read the article. If you had, you'd realize how un-pragmatic you're being.
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> "Still, while James did want us to believe, he also wanted us to give up “ideologies.” He called pragmatism “[t]he attitude of looking away from first things, principles, ‘categories,’ supposed necessities; and of looking towards last things, fruits, consequences, facts.” Pragmatists can have principles but not self-verifying ones; they renounce any certainties that are based on claims of universal necessity.  In our world of chance and change, things may not go the way we want either intellectually or practically, so we have to look to the developing world of actions and results for support of, and challenges to, our most cherished faiths. The final test of even our logic is how well it leads us to act and live. Pragmatists therefore think, and act, provisionally, or subject to later changes in course."
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> "In 2006, Obama, then the junior senator from Illinois wrote in his memoir “The Audacity of Hope”, that the Constitution, rather than being a dead document based on settled principles, is “designed to force us into a conversation” and offers “a way by which we argue about our future.” And he criticized his own Democratic party for failing to bring new ideas to this argument, having become “the party of reaction”: “In reaction to a war that is ill-conceived, we appear suspicious of all military action. In reaction to those who proclaim the market can cure all ills, we resist efforts to use market principles to tackle pressing problems. In reaction to religious overreach, we equate tolerance with secularism and forfeit the moral language that would help infuse our policies with a larger meaning.” Obama challenged both parties to leave behind their ideological boilerplate and develop something new, something that all Americans can come to believe in."
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> And how do you guys respond? In knee-jerk fashion with the same old ideological boilerplate we've all heard a thousand times, that's how.
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> 
> Sigh.
> 
> Troll, troll, troll away...
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