On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 10:42 AM, kirby urner <kirby.urner@...> wrote:

> Doesn't mention Wittgenstein but you'll see where the puzzle piece fits.
> Fixed a typo (the -> to).
>
> Recent reading: Clear and Queer Thinking: Wittgenstein's Development and
> His Relevance to Modern Thought
> by Laurence Goldstein, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1999.
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> Kirby
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I've gotten to the part in this book where we read about
Hitler.

There's a rather breathless endorsement of the Cornish
thesis, or theses (there are quite a number of them).

Laurence seems quite willing to buy a world view in
which we might single out and scapegoat two schoolboys
for the crimes of a world war. Recess got out of hand.

Do we really want to saddle Wittgenstein and Hitler with
these almost superhuman powers? 'The Jew of Linz'
makes each a lion-sized magician, both amazing
baddies in differently corrupting ways.

Me, I think "the spectator classes" (TV watchers) have
their share of the responsibility for whatever great
surges, twists of history. It's convenient to have some
celebrities to pin it on, but the Zeitgeist is working
through the audience here, channeling a shared
psyche.

Edwin Black is exultant in that one scene, in his
history of Baghdad, where the USA team realizes
it has the option to just leave, and they do, defusing
a big misunderstanding. He's describing a real
incident and an innovative response.

I also have 'How the Hippies Saved Physics' here
with me, on the campus of PLU (Tacoma). This
helps connect those Erhard-Heidegger dots to
Kauffman, William Warren Bartlett III i.e. players
closer to our own time.

Kirby
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