“Finnegans Wake” is not a prose poem, which is probably how many people would like to read it. It’s a work of realist fiction. It’s just that the reality it represents is nighttime reality, the dream life, which Joyce believed required the invention of a new mode of language. Normal syntax is designed for a law-abiding reality, for a reality that is organized temporally, spatially, and causally. In dreams, these laws are suspended, which means that, to represent the dream life, normal syntax has to be suspended, too. And images in dreams can represent two things at once, as when we dream of X and know all the time that it is Y. This is why punning is the language of the night.
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An old cylinder discovered in a temple in Babylon (modern-day Iraq) sporting cuneiform inscriptions revealed some surprising edicts. Linked with the Persian king, Cyrus the Great, founder of the Achaemenid Empire, many believe the Cylinder lays out the world’s first declaration of universal human rights. More than two millennia before the French Revolution introduced the Declaration of the Rights of Man. Of the Citizens, an ancient Near Eastern monarch issued a charter considered the oldest known declaration of human rights. This charter is known today as the Cyrus Cylinder. The Cyrus Cylinder was discovered in the ruins of Babylon, in
Modern states created expert-led administrations to serve specific, subordinate functions. Certain questions required technical assessments, for which rulers had to employ competent advisers. But the Industrial Revolution expanded the need for this kind of structure far beyond its initial conception. The centralization of private power demanded the centralization of public power. Faced with ever-expanding firms with clear objectives and coordinated hierarchies, the state found itself dealing with unprecedented legal, administrative, and industrial complexity at scale. Institution-builders restructured state power to deal with these challenges, one step at a time. Once a subordinate extension of conventional authority, technocracy metastasized into a large, independent authority of its own. The statesman-expert hierarchy has become a partnership upon which the functionality of the state depends. Just as the preservation of order in medieval kingdoms required symbiosis between priest and knight, so the preservation of state capacity in industrial societies requires symbiosis between expert and statesman.
A discussion of the “Do unto others” Bible verse. Matthew 7:12: “In everything, do unto others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.” The Golden Rule Bible verse. Love your neighbor as yourself bible verse.
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How the RCMP has secured the imperialist power of the north
Canada was only six years old as a nation-state when it established the North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) in 1873. This original name for what would become the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mountain Police) outlined a colonial purpose, as the Northwest was not yet fully part of Canada at this time. The territory had been fraudulently purchased from the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) three years earlier and remained largely under the effective control of Indigenous nations such as the Métis, Cree, Anishinaabe, Dene, and Nakota.
Indigenous effective control ran contrary to all fraudulent claims to the territory by Canada, since the HBC had never purchased the land from Indigenous peoples in the first place in order to legitimately sell it to anyone — the Canadian/British military had to be sent to Red River (Winnipeg) in 1870 to remove the Métis-led provisional government that had been established there the year before.
Read it all at Source: A Condensed History of Canada’s Colonial Cops – The New Inquiry