tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post2862909545894695145..comments2024-03-29T02:03:49.151-04:00Comments on History Unfolding: The Decline of PowerDavid Kaiserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05020082243968071584noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-55584774375075095082014-08-06T16:58:47.914-04:002014-08-06T16:58:47.914-04:00Professor:
Regarding Mr. Bryson's ideas on th...Professor:<br /><br />Regarding Mr. Bryson's ideas on the radio program, please let us know when it will air as many of us will want to find a way to listen to the program.<br /><br />It sounds fascinating.<br /><br />Thanks to Mr. Bryson.<br /><br />JimAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08975858647978546069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-77431972087856454592014-08-06T02:14:58.809-04:002014-08-06T02:14:58.809-04:00Dear Professor Kaiser,
Please forgive me for break...Dear Professor Kaiser,<br />Please forgive me for breaking in on your comments section, but I’ve been unable to find another way to contact you.<br />I’m a producer with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, based in Sydney. As part of our Great War Centenary programming, I’m currently making a radio feature about the idea of war, partly a discussion on the philosophy of Clausewitz and Jomini, and partly a look at the pacifism of Leo Tolstoy – a kind of ‘War and Peace’ in radio form, if you like, though certainly much less ambitious! My hope is to give our listeners an insight into war and peace as philosophical ideas.<br />I recently found your article on ‘Clausewitz and the First World War’ (Infinity Journal Special Edition, February 2012), and wondered if you may be interested in talking to us about some of the ideas you put forward there, and also more generally about Clausewitz and his relevance today. This would involve a radio interview from an NPR station near you at a time that suits. The interview is recorded for later editing, and would run for 30-40 minutes.<br />Please let me know if you can help, and if so, we can then perhaps arrange a time and date, or I’d be happy to call you at some convenient time to discuss the matter further.<br />Regards,<br />Gary Bryson<br />ABC Radio National<br />bryson.gary@abc.net.auGary Brysonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10852637456744182576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-75317968917518883112014-08-04T07:01:36.818-04:002014-08-04T07:01:36.818-04:00Good Morning:
Thank you Professor. Another fine ...Good Morning:<br /><br />Thank you Professor. Another fine piece of work.<br /><br />I must make a simple remark. I read occasionally the thought that when energy gets short, Our thoughtful government will simply ration it. Sorry but that is not the American way.<br /><br />Our Environmentalists think if we can just suddenly run out and buy solar panels then we can all make fudge together and be happy. Sorry, that's not what will happen.<br /><br />If energy is suddenly short, the lower economic classes will simply not have any. Heat or fuel. Anyone lucky enough to live within walking distance of their job may keep it, at least for a little while. The rest will lose theirs in short order and then that will spread to the others. Next the elites that have money will lose their income as the economy collapses. <br /><br />Every group will never think of sharing but will instead protect their own advantage for as long as possible.<br /><br />Sharing has not been the American way for many, many years.<br /><br />Cheers<br />JimAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08975858647978546069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-62355926427127668152014-08-03T05:28:21.930-04:002014-08-03T05:28:21.930-04:00Hobbesian necessity indeed. Materialist rationalis...Hobbesian necessity indeed. Materialist rationalism leaves a big hole in the heart unless you are deeply grounded in philosophy which is equally challenging intellectually so that simple belief in god is better alternative for common man. The hobbes part reminds me of basic reason Hitler had to expand eastward. In WWI Germany hungered as autarchy did not work, the population growth in 19th century made self sufficiency impossible. Hitler needed Ukraine as breadbasket. Essentially earth as a whole is coming to this point but there is nowhere left to get the extra food and population keeps growing so wars expand.This is the Hobbesian mecessity we ser onthe Middle Esatern people's rebellionns ogf the lst fee years due to bread and fuel prices. Ukraine goes from decade to decade in a worse situation, like Weimar on steroids crossed with a corrupt 3rd world regime. After some months, food, water, heating, electrity will al be rationed and violence from varrious groups one against another normal and war effort and govt collapse. This is Hobbes. ISIS type movement will then be seen as saviour like Hitler or Napoleon. This type of desperation is becomint normal as in Japan economic madness. Give it a few years. To quote sci-fi author Gibson on the negatibe sense, "the future is already here, just not so evenly distributed."<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-38688201968040272802014-08-02T19:23:07.198-04:002014-08-02T19:23:07.198-04:00Professor
Great post. I very much think so, too: ...Professor<br /><br />Great post. I very much think so, too: a general decline in power, everywhere.<br /><br />This was, unfortunately, at least in my review of the past 300 or so years, one legacy, in part, among many, of The Enlightenment itself. <br /><br />There were, of course, other cross currents running along the eddies.<br /><br />All the best,Bozonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18078858723231122013noreply@blogger.com