@Enco

I think you’re missing Mearsheimer’s point on hegemony. It’s not about winning battles, it’s about national survival in the long term. The U.S. has been hegemonic since WW2, but if it doesn’t get past these bank failures and avoid the depression that may follow, the “petrodollar” may give way to the “petroruble,” “petroyuan,” or a BRICS…[Read more]

Autumn, i think i know where you are going with that but would you mind elaborating just a bit?

Of course, of course but he will only give me an answer that I endorse so that does not elevate our use of Reason that the swifter equines would endorse, of course.

Unseen wrote:

Anyone “woke” should take notice:

I like Carlin, but in this case, no, not really. I won’t say he’s 100% wrong. It can slow conversation for people who become paralyzed looking for the right term so as to avoid criticism. But he’s missing or deliberately cutting out so much of the conversation that it comes off as misguided and naï…[Read more]

Anyone “woke” should take notice:

Whoooaa Enco,

Word salad schtick?

I resemble that remark.

Unseen,

You think Mearsheimer talks nonsense? He talks perfect sense. For example (and this covers your “moral and ethical strictures”) he points out that governments act in their country’s interest before they consider international law. In other words, the only way a country can preserve its own safety and security (in theory, anyway) is to ac…

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Reg,

They might take that comment as an ad Houyhnhnm.

It might cause an interspecies international incident involving their Ambassador to Humans.🐴😁

Michael17,

But to answer your question the creator of all things both visible and invisible thus by implication “I Am”.

So…Popeye? 😁

True story: In an Old Testiment Literature class, the Professor Dr. Lichtman recounted the story of Moses and The Burning Bush in which JHVH-1 said to Moses his name “I Am Wha…[Read more]

Jake,

Doesn’t matter how satirical, clever or logical you are-ya ain’t gonna make a dent in the world view of michael17. The truth of the mythology is assumed and anything contradicting it is processed in his brain in a way consistent with the preservation of the mythology. I am not sure anyone could change Enco’s ideology eithe…

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