Politics According To Krauthammer
I just finished Charles Krauthammer's last book, "Things That Matter." It is so brillian that I literally found over 100 topics to discuss in this forum. But I won't. At the very start of the book he makes the point that no matter how much effort he puts into writing about science,medicine, art, poetry,architecture, chess, space, sports, numbers, in the end they must "bow to the sovereignty of politics."In trying to move the spectre of politics off the table he got into the Voyager probes and whose voice narrated but Kurt Waldheim, a former NAZI. It prompted me to ask the Gulch one simple but extremely profound question: What one thing would you send on Voyager 1 and/or 2? Krauthammer finally winds up saying what biologist and philosopher Lewis Thomas proposed as evidence of human achievement ;the Complete works of Bach.(Personally, I would have chosen Beethoven). So, am asking this forum, if you were allowed to send only one item on Voyager 1 or 2, what would it be? Remember you are representing all of earth from fauna to flora, from philosophy to nonsense, from math to quantum. Just one thing. Music? Science? words? go for it.
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Branden went on to do more work in psychology than in philosophy, and he did expose some quite dramatic psychological difficulties that Ayn Rand had. She was a bit hard to deal with, which I saw for myself, if you werent absolutely perfect in your application of Objectivism. She tolerated absolutely no deviations.
I lived through that period, and in fact had Branden come speak at Stanford while I was a student there after the famous breakup. I never heard him denigrating Objectivism or Ayn Rand personally. I think they each had their place.
But except for AS, she didnt communicate with people where THEY lived. Branden, on the other hand did communicate that way. One could talk with Nathaniel, but not so much with Ayn Rand. She was more aloof. I agree that the movement stopped when Branden was excommunicated.
Gore came very close to winning power after Clinton (and would have if the Senate had removed Clinton), and so did Kerry. The trend into Obama was only a matter of time, and that set new precedents paving the way for the mentality of Sanders and Warren. Trump on the white horse was a desperate anti-intellectual backlash against it, without being for the right principles, in a zig-zag downward trend.
I just don’t see much of a future for the usa
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