Yeah, not so crisp but then, the Vine was blurry too & also, it is a 7 second .gif, & I doubled its size for display. I count it a victory, plus I just linked it to the original. Done & done.
The earthquake damage made me muse on how long it will stand for. Curious to think about.
The lifetime appointment is maybe the root cause of the problems of the court- but the court has always been too conservative and never really rolled with the punches - they hold back and interfere with democracy - what with their backwardness of not really being elected at all.
I am mostly interested in the root causes; I agree the court is too Conservative, & not conservative; if the court was conservative as in, unwilling to meddle, I'd be a little bit okay with it. But the whole point of the court is to be separated from democracy & accountability. I think things like Civil Rights show that the court does work; I don't WANT to put equality up for a vote, I want it enshrined in the rule of law. I think the Judicial Branch should be the one to make sure the rule of law is respected.
Also it's funny how going to the capitol and seeing all the statues will get you in the mood to think about the things - it all works, when there's visual propaganda - of course, the Republic! The Union!
Yeah, totally. & I'm totally into it! Or like, at least, into The Dream. Like, yeah, hey! The Founders were slave owners who didn't let women or anyone who wasn't rich vote, & founded our nation on genocide & theft! But I mean, we can still pick the diamonds from that river of feces.
Maybe it's this- this feeling that there are things worth saving (irrevocably embedded in the damnable) that I am starting to find to be the most pernicious aspect of the state. Maybe of everything.
That idea that - it's a dear old thing with some really bright spots- the nostalgia for things that ought be thought unacceptable - maybe that's the root of disaster?
Maybe this is an idea akin to old notions of the perversity of the middle-brow.
I disagree-- but then, I come from a scientific paradigm (not in the Kuhnian sense, but the colloquial) where failure & revision is...part & parcel? That is, I don't think you should have untainted fondness for, say, the Founding Fathers-- who, while people want to overlook the whole "slavery" thing were in fact embedded in a discourse where abolitionists existed going "what the fuck is even wrong with you, kidnapping & slavery & rape & fucking...what is wrong with you?" & apologists were like "oh but the money!" & "look at the Jesus!" & stuff, like, they KNEW BETTER-- doesn't mean I think that their results should be thrown out. I mean, the French Revolution failed spectacularly but it also shone spectacularly!
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Oh yeah, Earthquake damage!
and The Statue of Liberty is closed because of Sandy. Why does Mother Nature hate America?
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The earthquake damage made me muse on how long it will stand for. Curious to think about.
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I prefer to err on the side of more democracy.
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I prefer to err on the side of more republic.
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That idea that - it's a dear old thing with some really bright spots- the nostalgia for things that ought be thought unacceptable - maybe that's the root of disaster?
Maybe this is an idea akin to old notions of the perversity of the middle-brow.
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