Ted, you insinuated I was a mentally debilitated paralytic and I suggested
you might look into what a thread is about before commenting on it. It's
not a very polite exchange but seems fair enough to me. We don't agree on
much and it's actually not so interesting to dialogue.
On Fri, Mar 3, 2023
Yes to "I find the link with Protestant ethics, a spiral of
purity, an interesting angle."
I will take an historically well known episode of that ethic : prohibition.
I not consume much alcohol. I mostly hate the effect it has on the attitude
of people beyond a quite low threshold.
But I think
As of today:
1663 subs/Regular
1139 subs/Digests
-
2802 subs/Total
# distributed via : no commercial use without permission
#is a moderated mailing list for net criticism,
# collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets
# more info:
Hi Pit,
with the thread firmly back in the closet, I thought to give a second
look at your text.
Let me try to better point out the Schmittian fallcy: it looks at the
situation assuming the wrong actors, as in realist 'nations'. Parts of
the world operate indeed 'post-westphalian' - but not
