Paul Legato

I give you another exhibit of how creeping far-left postmodernist ideas are infecting the mainstream of thought in California, a symptom of the larger rot that is slowly destroying the Democratic Party nationally. Continue Reading »

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Why is the US involved in Libya today? Why is NATO there? Why aren’t they doing more or less (depending on your politics) than they are? Is the whole thing yet another evil colonial imperialist plot to make the white man rich by seizing the Other’s oil? Let’s look at some hard data and see what we can figure out. Continue Reading »

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And it came to pass, that Goldman’s then-chief overlord was order’d to parade full 7 days and 7 nights through the streets of lower Manhattan, clad in naught save his drawers, bearing tether’d to heavy chains every SEC filing that Goldman hath wrought for 10 years previous; while the peasants of the borough were to gather round to hurl rotting vegetables thence, and cry, “Lo! How the mighty have fallen!”

And only then, once the indignity were suffer’d in full, might he retreat to his penthouse to recover, or to his yacht, or to the coffers of his chalet in southern France, or to his Bahamas estate countinghouse, or to any other sequester’d location whatsoever.

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I just read “A Constructivist Take on the Strait” by Max Tsung-Chi Yu. The information on Taiwanese internal politics with regard to China and of the various nations’ stances towards growing Chinese power was interesting and informative. What I disliked was the explicitly intersubjective analysis of the “One China, different interpretations” declaration. Intersubjectivity and notions of mutually constructed non-objective reality are intrinsically phenomenological nonsense, thus irretrivably corrupting any theory thence derived. (And despite the superficially warm and fuzzy happy hippie overtones in which phenomenology and its offspring postmodernism and constructivism usually present today, let’s not forget where it came from and what it was invented to support, and what it could easily be turned to again in the future, with very little if any theoretical modification from its present form.) Continue Reading »

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