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I just re-read Marcel Mauss' classic, The Gift (Le Don). Wow. What is stunning is that after talking about gift-giving as a "total social fact" that holds "primitive" society (Maori, Andaman, etc) together, Mauss returns to the France of 1925, emphasizing integrative 1/
forces there as well, including corporate contributions to reduce unemployment, and unionization: "This is not an upheaval, but a return to law, the dawn of professional morality and corporate law.... Nous revenons donc à une morale de groupes," we return to group morality. 2/
Striking primitive - modern feedback loop. Influenced Finley's World of Odysseus more than Polanyi, emphasizing that society is more than a profit-maximizing machine. "Toute cette morale corresponde, non pas à un trouble, mais à un retour au droit." Imagine. 3/
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Pleiku: as news comes in from Hormuz, worth recalling:
Bundy later acknowledged that Pleikus were like ‘streetcars’. He could count on repeated Viet Cong attacks to provide him with the pretext he needed at the opportune moment to sell escalation to the president.
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Here is a further thought on this book, which the editors may well have covered -- I have not read through it yet -- but that I think merits attention.
The selection of texts is crucial, since it establishes the "world" the coders are left to analyze. One example of POTENTIAL 1/
risk is revealed by some current discussions over whether USA is a "democracy" or "republic." People (often with their own agendas) who insist on the latter. And Madison certainly was influential in cementing that notion.
But now comes Matthew Rainbow Hale, Journal of 2/
History (March 2017), who uses new databases to access newspapers from 1790-1800: "Regenerating the World: The French Revolution, Civic Festivals, and the Forging of Modern American Democracy, 1793–1795." Tea Party et al "fail to understand," he says, "to understand how a 3/
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Re: claims that academe is now "left-leaning" based on very short-term studies. There may be some truth there, but getting to it requires careful attention to context and cause. Worth recalling that things have been different, and asking, Why? E.g. the presidential address 1/
to the American Historical Association in 1963 concerned the arrival of lower-class non-WASPs in the field: "Many of the younger practitioners of our craft are products of lower middle-class or foreign origins, and their emotions not infrequently get in the way of historical 2/
reconstructions. They find themselves in a very real sense outsiders on our past and feel shut out. This is certainly not their fault, but it is true. They have no experience to assist them, and the chasm between them and the Remote Past widens every hour. The changes 3/
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🙄Classic deflection. You made a false accusation that my greatest accomplishment is that of my husband. When I stated the #fact that I’ve earned an MD & PhD, and asked you what you’ve accomplished, you refused to answer. So what have you accomplished, other than trolling people?
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Le 1er thread sur l'Univers vous a beaucoup plu, du coup j'ai décidé d'en faire un 2e, j'espère que vous allez aimer !! Bon spectacle 😎
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