I haven't seen anyone else post this yet but I'm sure someone has, in a slightly different direction Devlin has talked about this https://t.co/C60mwEpTKA
@DuckBrun@zuki_2024@AuronMacintyre It's true unfortunately. Anyone who actually wants to organize is usually crazy, and everyone else is just a grifter online. Watching people try to make it on their own as things get worse in South Africa and Britain is not encouraging. Mad rush to money as favela looms
One of the most frustrating things in our modern times is that we have so few great Men who are genuinely above it all. Everyone is drug into endless online bickering about nothing. The only real ones are Celine types that can exist now, and those are rare.
Powerful moment in Lampedusa today as the Pope Leo climbs to the highest rock overlooking the Mediterranean where thousands of migrants drowned while seeking a better life.
This entire concept of the constitution being a “conterrevolution” is so utterly and completely false historically it’s ridiculous. First off, the vast majority of those who signed off on independence were also in favor of the constitution, at least of those still alive.
John Adams is the easiest example. In favor of both. He’s also one of your favorites. Even most of the ones hesitant were in favor as soon as a bill of rights was added. And of their “political philosophy” you are incapable of putting yourself into the minds of people who were simultaneously trying to fight a war against the most powerful empire in existence at the time while also trying to get 13 different colonies each with their own distinct identity to them to actually work together in something that had the minimum level of cohesion necessary to fight a war.
Hence, the articles of confederation. A very barebones, bare minimum draft of what could actually work made on pragmatic lines under the pressures of war. Which as soon as the war was over, everyone saw was insufficient for peace time, not because it was built on some elaborate political philosophy, but because it was chosen for those circumstances and now we were under different ones.
The war itself builds cohesion, because war builds cohesion, just as the assault of the Great Heathen Army directly led to the vision of England and greater unity among the Saxon kingdoms, the war for independence inculcated greater unity among Americans than had been present before the war.
So they were now more ready, naturally, for a more cohesive and extensive government. You frame everything and think about everything in terms of ideas and philosophies and ideology divorced from time, circumstance, and people. That itself is extremely modernistic and gives a poor read of history.
If you could understand that, too, you would better understand monarchy itself and how to actually better craft sensible political philosophy, because it would then be rooted in something that wasn’t literally just ideas and rationals and systems as they work in your own head, but based in a pragmatic understanding of people and realities.
Again, Supreme Court has afaik an advisory role in USA system and executive has ability to interpret Constitution. Trump could appoint a Joint Task Force staffed with scholars of Derrida to study recent Court birthright citizenship ruling carefully 2-4 yrs before implementation.