http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boza
Nothing like boza and mazna banitza for breakfast in Bulgaria.
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Against the Conventional Wisdom
http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=10309
Argument why Bush's foreign policy is a sucess and the US is not in decline.
Argument why Bush's foreign policy is a sucess and the US is not in decline.
The End of Man-- Hipsters
http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/79/hipster.html
cool-hunting, nihilism, youth culture, irony, fixed gear bikes
cool-hunting, nihilism, youth culture, irony, fixed gear bikes
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Another of Comte's contemporaries, Karl Marx, was particularly contemptuous of Comte's work, condemning his "shit positivism" (Scheisspositivismus) and vehemently denying ever "writing Comtist recipes for the kitchens of the future." Marx saw the supposed expertise and neutrality of social engineers influenced by Comte as a sham, as it is impossible to stand above society and manipulate social variables. Marx pointed out that the social engineer is human, and is therefore "no abstract being squatting outside the world." ] Marx always puts things so nicely... i found this quote at http://thegreatdebate.org.uk/ThreeCs.html
i learned that Brazil's flag has written on it modifed comte philosophy.. comte reformers were all over the place in S america... i was reading h. spencer from a 'history of Western thought' book i have, and comparing him to Hegel. spencer does use an inherent drive of "freedom" as the prime mover or kernel core of historical unfolding of Progress... it seems likely that spencer got this from Hegel, but i cannot find a definite link. Comte is harder to decipher: he writes "[the] central point of Positivism is... the principle of Love upon which the whole system rests. ...Hence, Progress, which is simply the development of Order under the influence of Love" [love being his shorthand for "sympathetic instincts" over and above self-interest..] whtat is interesting is that both spencer and comte, in the bits and pieces i read, appear to be idealists like Hegel. it is only when we get a strong darwinism inspired soical evolution, that a materialism appears..
i learned that Brazil's flag has written on it modifed comte philosophy.. comte reformers were all over the place in S america... i was reading h. spencer from a 'history of Western thought' book i have, and comparing him to Hegel. spencer does use an inherent drive of "freedom" as the prime mover or kernel core of historical unfolding of Progress... it seems likely that spencer got this from Hegel, but i cannot find a definite link. Comte is harder to decipher: he writes "[the] central point of Positivism is... the principle of Love upon which the whole system rests. ...Hence, Progress, which is simply the development of Order under the influence of Love" [love being his shorthand for "sympathetic instincts" over and above self-interest..] whtat is interesting is that both spencer and comte, in the bits and pieces i read, appear to be idealists like Hegel. it is only when we get a strong darwinism inspired soical evolution, that a materialism appears..
social evolution
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Darwinism
was wondering about something, i am interested in how Progress in social darwinism seems to mirror a Hegelian model of historical teleology. I dont think that positivism and the positivists had anything to do with Hegelian thought (i would think they would abhor it...), but it seems that, in the final analysis, that both positiivists and hegelians formulate a similar model/ ideology of modernity/ progress. have you ran into any discussion of this? i am writing/ reseraching an essay about the neocons, terror, Mid east and want to discuss Fukuyama's "end of history" thesis, which draws explicity on Hegel and is seminal to neocon strategy of aggressive promulgation of poli-econ Liberalism. however, when looking at development discourse in economic and social terms, also important in the conceptual prefiguring of the Middle east in terms of 3rd world, "less developed," barbaric, or whatever the current euphamism is, i would say it is much more informed by social evolutionary ideology. the point is, both ideologies get us to the same place, "they" are our past, and we are their future, which frames and enables development agencies, the US, and other "great" powers to act, just like a christianizing mission: they are heathens and it is our duty as christians who know what the fuck is going on to change them and bring them out of darkness. and so i am wondering if and how these two ideologies are linked, they are just so close conceptually it appears to me.
was wondering about something, i am interested in how Progress in social darwinism seems to mirror a Hegelian model of historical teleology. I dont think that positivism and the positivists had anything to do with Hegelian thought (i would think they would abhor it...), but it seems that, in the final analysis, that both positiivists and hegelians formulate a similar model/ ideology of modernity/ progress. have you ran into any discussion of this? i am writing/ reseraching an essay about the neocons, terror, Mid east and want to discuss Fukuyama's "end of history" thesis, which draws explicity on Hegel and is seminal to neocon strategy of aggressive promulgation of poli-econ Liberalism. however, when looking at development discourse in economic and social terms, also important in the conceptual prefiguring of the Middle east in terms of 3rd world, "less developed," barbaric, or whatever the current euphamism is, i would say it is much more informed by social evolutionary ideology. the point is, both ideologies get us to the same place, "they" are our past, and we are their future, which frames and enables development agencies, the US, and other "great" powers to act, just like a christianizing mission: they are heathens and it is our duty as christians who know what the fuck is going on to change them and bring them out of darkness. and so i am wondering if and how these two ideologies are linked, they are just so close conceptually it appears to me.
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