Re: [Critical-Realism] Not In My Back Yard

["Mervyn Hartwig" <mh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Some thoughts from a genuinely radical thinker on the politics of change,
1997:

"We need an end to 'the politics of disenchantment', the politics of
Nietsche and Weber and the politics of social democracy, and which has so
profoundly influenced the politics of the Left. We need to produce a
different conception of ourselves in the world. The revolution will be
nothing less than this: the transformation of our understanding of ourselves
and of the whole world in which we live, our situation in the cosmos."

(Bhaskar, From Science to Emancipation, 200). 

Mervyn 
 
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[mailto:critical-realism-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mark
Methven
Sent: 04 January 2008 15:11
To: Continuation of the Spoon Bhaskar List
Subject: [Critical-Realism] Not In My Back Yard

As one of the Americans on this list, let me assure
you that the concept 'radical thinker' is completely
foreign to presidential candidates in general and this
 group in particular. The last 30 years have been
embarrassing enough, nay downright shameful, for
having endured the certified and certifiably moronic
from all political parties wearing and tearing down
the political and civil infrastructure on this
country.  However, what is more shameful is that that
same 'American Spirit' that is so commonly ballyhooed
about and rubbed in others' faces - the spirit of 'The
Boston Tea Party', the courage of D-Day, the
indomitable Can-do, is gone. What has replaced it is
an insufferable, complacent arrogance not unlike its
whithering British counterpart, being of the same
common stripe, being equally as deadly and destructive
to the world while bestowing 'democracy' and
'Anglo-Saxon law'.  Rereading Milton Mayer's "They
Thought They Were Free" resonates with an eerie
familiarity. One can only wonder when we will have our
own Nuremberg conducted by the Chinese or Brazilians
perhaps - The Wall St. Trials?  But even that pithy
irony would be lost on the rusted sensibilities of the
majority.   Sadly, blood is running in far too many
streets across the world; sadder still is that
Pennsylvania Ave. is not one of them.  But radical
thoughts are not part of the national political
discourse, only NIMBY.   
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