Just a few of his campaign promises:
Change is Cumming
? Cumming with respect for law and order
? Cumming with an eye for careful spending
? Cumming with enterprise for job renewal
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The Article: Global Executioner: Scales of Terror by Neil Smith, published by the Social Science Research Council.
The Text: The French philosopher Joseph de Maistre argued that insofar as human beings were constantly tempted to evil by their deepest passions, the maintenance of a peaceful social order ultimately depended on a single person, the executioner. It was much the same with nation states, according to Maistre, which “are born and die like individuals” and have a singular soul, a singular “race.” Reason was insufficient to combat passion, he believed, and the hiatus between them was inevitably colonized by power, whether between individuals or nations. The state takes on the role of executioner.
This conflation of scales – the assumption of a homology between individual and nation, a seamless continuity between individual and national behavior – Maistre shares with many Enlightenment and counter-Enlightenment thinkers alike, and it is foundational to the nation building project that accompanied the emergence of nation states in the eighteenth century. For want of a more sophisticated geography of global affairs, this ideological scale conflation retains a resonant appeal today in self-understandings of US foreign policy, whose justificatory discourse is full of recourse to nations as schoolyard bullies or “rogues.” It registers too in the defensive identification of individuals with government during times of conflict (“we should bomb Iraq”) in a country and a national culture that prides itself as anti-government.
Maybe it is because he’s lean, mean, and lets his weapon do the talking. Or maybe it is because TBS used to play all the Western movies on repeat. But whatever it is, I’ve always thought of Chipper Jones as the Clint Eastwood of baseball.
Clint Eastwood said goodbye to the West in the Oscar-winning “Unforgiven”. His skin is leathered over after years under the searing Western sun. His morals shot after decades of gunfights. The Man With No Name is just another weathered cowboy. “I’m just a fella now,” he reflects. “I ain’t no different than anyone else no more.”
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oh so you’re related to Ed Norton eh?
that must be sooo cool
so tell me, what are some of his favorite hobbies?
does he like:
moonlit walks on the beach?
does he like:
candlelit dinners for two?
because I do
I do.
tell him I do.
will you do that for me?
the next time you see him
at your other uncle’s wedding?
can you tell him I think of him daily and that I know that if he just gave us a chance it could really work I mean really work
we could become us could become one
tell him I love his movies
wait, where are you going?
I thought we had something, the two of us…
