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Hand-weapons, freedom and democracy: Pericles’ view
At the end of the first year of Peloponnesian War in 430 BC, on the funeral of those who have been killed in the war, a great Athenian statesmen Pericles gave his famous speech which summarized what made the spirit … Continue reading
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Cry Baby Cry, or a not-WASP, not-minority view on the upcoming inauguration #1
Now, in the wake of the upcoming Obama’s inauguration, when the dust and fog of electoral battles got settled, and euphoria or bitterns of the victory or defeat faded away, time has come to assess the meaning and consequences of … Continue reading
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On Gun Control (extended)
Indo-European gods of justice were always two-fold. One is a formal jurist, another is passionate about the gut-feeling fairness: Mitra and Varuna, Tyr and Odin, Dius Fidius and Jupiter. The informal fairness is off the primordial, wild nature, and could … Continue reading
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Charles-Louis Montesquieu and the Indo-European Myth #4
Continuation of the previous part… We see a striking familiarity in Mosaic themes of ethnological discourse between the New French and British Orientalism and subsequent beginnings of Indo-European studies, and the Old French (Portuguese) Jesuit Orientalism. However, despite that similarity, … Continue reading
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Charles-Louis Montesquieu and the Indo-European Myth #3
Continuation of the previous part… Britain Biblical, or as Professor of History and Anthropology at the University of Michigan Thomas Trautmann calls it, Mosaic ethnologists had a different opinion on the kinship of the European (and Indo-European) people to Noah’s … Continue reading
Charles-Louis Montesquieu and the Indo-European Myth #2
Continuation of the previous part… In Europe, in Middle Ages, consensus was reached that descendants of Shem populated Asia and formed social strata of Priests; Ham gave rise of African population and class of Servants; while Europeans and Nobility caste … Continue reading
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Charles-Louis Montesquieu and the Indo-European Myth #1
Continuation of the previous chapter… Of course in Montesquieu’s times the Indo-European theory, as well as the term itself didn’t exist yet. It took few more decades for the old school Orientalism of seventeenth-eighteenth centuries, sprinkled with the Enlightenment ideas, … Continue reading
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Charles-Louis Montesquieu and Social Anthropology #9
Continuation of the previous part… After getting familiar with theses outlined in Essay of Causes and Books XIV-XX of The Spirits of the Laws, one starts to understand better what are the foundations of the theory of governments and concept … Continue reading
Plato about Romney, 47% and elections
Conceive this sort of thing happening either on many ships or on one: Picture a shipmaster in height and strength surpassing all others on the ship, but who is slightly deaf and of similarly impaired vision, and whose knowledge of … Continue reading
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Charles-Louis Montesquieu and Social Anthropology #8
Continuation of the previous part… Montesquieu points out at the obvious observation that customs, professions and style of life we keep greatly affect and modify our thinking. For example “engravers see figures on the wall which are not there”, or … Continue reading
Massaraksh or The World Upside Down 