David Hume’s Footsoldier

ET IN ARCADIA EGO.

[David Hume’s Footsoldier @LineWallah]

David Betz is a well known and respected name to me.

This was a hard listen. Yet I think it uncontroversial to say we are a poorer, more fractured and more frustrated society.

Is our next war a civil war?
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[Antoine Bondaz @AntoineBondaz]

Can you imagine a foreign diplomat in China calling for the CPC Secretary-General to be “beheaded”?
No — for basic human decency and diplomatic protocol
And if any diplomat did that, their own government would sanction them long before China even expelled them
There is no debate

[Kate Clanchy @KateClanchy1]

The internet shutdown in Afghanistan happened in real time in my online poetry class on Monday. The women's accounts dropped out one by one. The last to go was Neda. Just before her image froze, I promised to put her poem on Twitter. She's 11. Online was her last hope of education. @WRNAfghanistan

[David Hume’s Footsoldier @LineWallah]

@SO3Beards And this isn’t a wind-up. I’m interested in moral philosophy and praxis and don’t like to live in an echo chamber. This site used to be really good for interesting conversations. Now it is mostly angry people shouting at each other. I am genuinely interested in your perspective.

[David Hume’s Footsoldier @LineWallah]

@SO3Beards With regards to your examples: is your issue with the ethical framework, the moral code, the implementation of all moral code or all three?

[David Hume’s Footsoldier @LineWallah]

@robert_lyman Old boss of mine! An unhealthy habit of politely yet persistently telling truth to power, which is why I suspect he never went further than he did. Not just clever, but perceptive too. One of the few I look up on my very rare forays to the Home Counties and London. Lovely chap.

[David Hume’s Footsoldier @LineWallah]

@SO3Beards I think @robert_lyman’s point is focused on basic standards. Fashions change, the standards have not. We went ‘ally’ in Afghanistan and saw the results in shocking DNBI rates.

[David Hume’s Footsoldier @LineWallah]

@SO3Beards There’s not much combat experience in the Army left now judging by the medals. And how pertinent that experience is to LSCO is debatable. Looking at ARRC and 3 Div on exercise I would say that we have a fair way to go to get to where we need to be.

[David Hume’s Footsoldier @LineWallah]

After the catastrophe that was social media + smart phones, it beggars belief that we are allowing the same mistakes to be made with AI and chat bots.

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[Gareth Harney @OptimoPrincipi]

Quintus and his wife Clarina made this grave memorial for their dearest, most devoted, and well-deserving son, Alexander. He lived three years, four months, and eighteen days. They beg of you, that when you pass by, you say aloud to Alexander: 'Sit tibi terra levis' - 'May the earth rest lightly on you.'
The marble grave marker includes a libation hole, into which visitors could pour libations of wine, milk, or honey as offerings to Alexander in the afterlife.
From the Via Ostiense cemetery, 2nd century AD, Capitoline Museums.

[David Hume’s Footsoldier @LineWallah]

@NaomiNiCathain Stark is an annoyed historian. He is not a Catholic, but the more he dug into history the more annoyed he got about what he found out. It is a good primer for personal study.
Wilson’s book is an excellent primer on the Thirty Years War.

By the way I’m a great fan of Tom Crean!

[Tom Flanagan @TomBFlanagan]

Reminds me that Tolkien admitted (self deprecatingly) he had only gotten his teaching position at Oxford ‘cos everybody else had died in WW1. It’s frustrating to think of all the talent lost from those two world wars.

[Femicide Census @FemicideCensus]

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[Midgley’s Musings @MidgleyMusings]

Still no comment. It is beginning to look churlish from @JohnSwinney and one would at least expect @Ross_Greer and @GillianMacMSP to have the courage of their convictions and condemn the announcement.

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[Holyrood @HolyroodDaily]

Frank, to a point: Nicola Sturgeon's memoir shows a politician more concerned with positioning than principle, says @JoanMcAlpine https://t.co/uL5aXfJ15r

[David Hume’s Footsoldier @LineWallah]

@FennellJW @felix_sears I volunteered at a residential migrant family support centre a couple of years ago. When I started I commented on the lack of books, games, computers and telephones. The staff replied that they used to provide them, but now everyone came with smart phones, they just needed Wi-Fi.

[David Hume’s Footsoldier @LineWallah]

Always like a good reading list!
I’ve read Haidt (highly recommended) and Trueman (esoteric for some I suspect, but very good). The others sound interesting. As ever, modern society is a multi faceted beast.