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Alienne Laval's Reviews > Popular Culture and Elite Culture in France, 1400-1750
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3657315332?book_show_action=true&from_review_page=1
How do power and control function? What can we learn about the history of "social control"? What is its recent expression?
An idiot is needed and a group (the "we"-people...) that controls and drives him...
Ashera wrote:Carol wrote: Life would be better with a different type of governance where individual cities or towns govern themselves...
This idea I spread for years - it is Gor. If a rotation would improve the matter I doubt. Also I do doubt that "ego" and "individuum" are the same, and deny the idea of "group rule" as such. I am rather Platonian, and this means that the best should rule - and this means the most individuated ones. In Gor most cities are ruled by a "Magistrate" but it also could be a Senate in earth context.
And concerning myself: I do not want to get defined based on nothing. I expect logical precision.
I quote from my yesterday email to the Bremen Land Court:
"Dr. Gieseler acts - even if in the name of the people - without a mandate, which means that she bears the full risk and responsibility for her actions. My 'interests worthy of protection', formulated so vaguely in hollow form by the district court, can only be understood in the sense of the state constitution and the Basic Law - but not as a group right."
- alienne_v@yahoo.comVive la Republique!
Ashera wrote:Imaginative Sex presents some of Norman's own philosophy, his own views on a number of matters, especially in the area of relationships between men and women. In addition, there is evidence within this book that could lead to a conclusion about at least one of the intentions of the creation of Gor. This conclusion is sure to cause controversy, even to lead to a possibly vocal opposition. Yet, the evidence is plainly laid out within Imaginative Sex. Though the conclusion is not absolutely explicit, it is a very logical conclusion based on what is presented. The conclusion presents one intention but does not deny that other intentions existed as well ( http://www.gor-now.net/delphius2002/id136.htm ).
I doubt that the reason is complexity or aliens... it is ambivalence caused by stupidity (cp. Paul Radin, "Primitive Religion"), and here artificial intelligence enters the field. It does not improve the matter because it does not understand ambivalence and thus ignorance.
The father of all this "dichotomic writing" was Bronislaw Malinowski, famous for his field work at the Trobiand Islands. Parallely to his public ethnography he wrote a diary (kept in secret until the 1980s... in succession of Goethe and Faust II?), full with sex, and drugs, and rock'n'roll, as one would say today.
Ivan Bystrina (John Whitewater), my doctor father, insisted in a "synthetical theory of culture evolution"...Volcano Island (so 2012 earth year)
(Why should the FU Berlin execute their bigot morals as they insist in? I was a full success! Down with Posner and the TU! Stupid wankers! Political will makes no university compound... excellence and academic autonomy prevail...)
Ashera wrote:I think that the Sekhemchet Pyramid cartouches indicate three names.
Serekh Sekhemkhet, the father, some kind of prince consort.
Djesernebti was the Queen and the mother:
Teti Sekhemchet was the daughter:
P.S.: I was almost permanently at the Egyptian Museum in Berlin when I had nothing else to do, alternating with the Buddhist Temple at Spandau (where I also used to nap sometimes) - partly the same day; I had a fast car.
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No one could believe it...
They imagined a person that never existed.
"There, in the swinging hills, you hear many things, and I ran and ran until I came to a footbridge. To my right were quite a few people; they were naked and shouting, 'How do you get across there, we want to cross there too, but we can't go any further here. Please come to us and help us cross, the water is too deep for us.' I paid no attention to them, I just ran and ran, and then I heard an animal. It sounded like a big dog, and there was a big dog and next to him was a big woman in blue clothes, and I decided to walk straight through them. I did, and the dog just growled at me. Never go back." (from the initiation dream of Kashia Pomo shaman Essie Parrish; in: George Quasha "Notes of a Speech by Essie Parrish, Delivered March 14, 1972," Alcheringa, No.1 (1975), pp.27-29)
Monday, 01 November 1993, 12.27pm
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One cannot mediate the immediate. You only can try to be faster than the henchmen. It is the pressure of 1001 Arabian Nights. If the horizontal flight is restricted it gets vertically - on travelling form and difference principle. I developed quite a "first girl neurosis".
