tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post8526522594989367925..comments2024-03-19T11:28:58.168-04:00Comments on History Unfolding: Some of the President's MenDavid Kaiserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05020082243968071584noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-10928278125447785032018-09-22T05:41:51.654-04:002018-09-22T05:41:51.654-04:00Take anyone else with Trump's political opinio...Take anyone else with Trump's political opinions and he would be acceptable. His emotional style is completely antisocial and incredibly abrasive. Perhaps in such times it takes that sort of person to get past such intransigent consensus bipartisan policies to a new global system. Why not try new ideas, like stopping imperialism to pay for infrastructure, health care or to stop immigration to integrate the record percentages historically of foreign born or 2nd generational population inhabiting the country. Globalism is the catchword for unlimited integration, unlimited free trade and the global policing necessary for all of this. Rome did the same. Empires tend to dissolve themselves. The Chinese, once traveled with a huge armada around the globe but decided to remain isolated. Otherwise the America, Europe, etc. would have been their colonies and their chinese internal population would have been massively mixed. They are now planning, I have read, to transplant seveal hundred million population to Africa. Long term that would lead to race mixing, mass immigration to China and global responsibilities similar to what Europeans and Americans have experienced. The colonial power becomes a magnet for the poor colonies who bring their problems with them to france, britain and in future perhaps China. At first the Chinese mmay be as racist as Brits in India, Belgians in Congo but over time contact with other cultures changes changes them. Russian contact with central Asians made them accepting of 'bakshish' or small bribes to police, nurse, etc. to obtain favors. Now daily life is much more asian than in Germany where even if Kafkaesque absurd(on paper you are deceased so you must be according to local burocrat) you can do nothing to change it. So globalism since Columbus had several waves. Now the Chinese perhaps Indians will have mass takeover of failed states in Africa, South America even Euroope and USA. The logic ultima ratio is more biological diffusion than ideological(enlightenmeng ideals, scientific revolution to connect dots with judaeo christian millenialist missionarrism). Bhuddhism, confucianism, taoism or advaita vedanta will be bent some way to excuse the new global takover, diffusion as our dominance declines, falls into utter chaos and population pressures in Asia force logical steps upon them. Be all this just speculation. Trump and the right across Europe are all aware of a sea change. European immigration between European countries in central, Easgern Europe was always a elease valve. In the end they were absorbed. Even France is simply a byproduct of roman-celtic admixture. Afro-Arab immigration takes us further and is more controversial. Do we obtain in the end a different culture as Russia obtained o r ancient Gaul? Before jazz, pop music, mixing claasical European, celtic hillbilly and negro sounds mixed we could not readily accept African culture globally. Modern music is truly globalist coming from American mixed culture. I think no one person, country can control what the next decades, centuries will bring, how mankind will evolve cuturally, genetically. Euro-Americans will lose preeminence and perhaps monotheism, islam included will decline alongside them. But ideology is only a superficiality to the deeper human condition. As earth heats up we will likely need new emotional skills, also in high arctic, inconcievable now, much as in neanderthal ice age Europe.Ed Boylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01753383765150492163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-87461781587505638562018-09-21T23:37:36.406-04:002018-09-21T23:37:36.406-04:00Professor
If you will permit me another brief rema...Professor<br />If you will permit me another brief remark or two along these lines:<br /><br />It may actually be that Trump is something like what used to be called, in the early days of that whore of a discipline, psychology, an 'idiot savant'. <br /><br />But he represents a new and different branch of that disorder, related strictly to politics.<br /><br />In my zanier moments, I wish it were true of me too, but, sadly, I know better.<br /><br />A political savant like Trump may actually be able to smell political truth.<br /><br />All the bestBozonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18078858723231122013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-67388732042646512662018-09-21T17:52:53.607-04:002018-09-21T17:52:53.607-04:00Professor
Interesting and sweeping assessment. I s...Professor<br />Interesting and sweeping assessment. I share some of Trump's views, whacko as he is.<br />even Thomas L Friedman has too. So these are some thoughts on your essay, with quotes from your post where we admit Trump believes something that actually is true:<br /><br />Thomas L Friedman (not my favorite authority on anything):<br /><br />"Some things are true even if Trump believes them."TLF:<br /><br />"Donald Trump...believes with some justification that voters preferred him in 2016 because of them."DK<br /><br />"...He believes that a trade deficit with any country proves that we are being taken advantage of--especially if the United States is also helping pay for the defense of that country...."DK<br /><br />"...In his own way, Donald Trump seems to have grasped an essential truth of our time: that creating a new Afghanistan in our image of democracy is an entirely hopeless enterprise, and that it has little or nothing to do with the problem of preventing terrorist attacks in the United States or elsewhere..."DK<br /><br />"...Trump argued repeatedly with Kelly, Mattis, and H. R. McMaster about Afghanistan and would have been delighted to give up the whole enterprise-..."DK<br /><br />"...the President..., finally recognizing, perhaps, that our Pakistani "ally" has been on the other side of the Afghanistan war all along...."DK<br /><br />"...he could not make much progress against the united opposition of the Secretary of the Treasury, Steve Mnuchin (who does not seem to have talked to Woodward), his chief economic adviser Gary Cohn, and the heads of his national security establishment, all of whom were firmly committed to the postwar world order...."DK<br /><br />"...our national security establishment 17 years after 9/11....has learned nothing...., (yet) all of whom were firmly committed to the postwar world order." DK <br /><br />All the bestBozonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18078858723231122013noreply@blogger.com