Naturally, just as I got up of my chair and took my first step towards the room in which all of our cleaning equipment is stored, the ingenious devil put on “Thirteen Days“, and used his silvered tongue to talk me into procrastinating for a while longer. It was almost three o’clock in the afternoon, [...]
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“The peaceful distribution of resources within a society,” I believe is a common political scientific definition of this term. It’s roots can be found in Ancient Greek, where it apparently refered to the governing of a polis. Which is basically what this description’s first sentence said.
Religion? No, thank you. Marx? Yes, please.
I was just reading “The Right Nation“, a book about the rise of the American Right, and I came to a passage which said that American conservatives such as Ronald Reagan see the United States as a nation favored by God because of its democratic virtue, and those kinds of things, and that this is [...]
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Klikk på lenka, les litt, og kanskje skriv under?
This is what I call Science Fiction!
Just came back from watching “Children of Men” in the movies, and it was bloody awesome.
The filmatographic elements were all perfect. The camerawork, done with an unsteady handheld, gave the film a more realistic atmosphere (during one scene, “blood” sprays across the lense, kinda like in “Saving Private Ryan”, except that I don’t think it [...]
VanderMeer vs. Bakker
It may be a little dated, but I just wrote a summary of the VanderMeer-Bakker debate fro this spring, over at fantasyforumet.net, and I advise everyone who cares about literature to read at least the two original essays and the interview, if not necessarily the discussion from VanderMeer’s blog, as it is somewhat tedious.
The Surpriser
Alright, I thought I’d follow up “Donnie Darko” with watching another one of my DVDs that I haven’t seen before, as I said I planned on doing. Also, It has been kindly suggested that I’m too kind when I rate movies.
Thus, I required a DVD I hadn’t seen before, and one which I suspected I [...]
The State of the End of the Millenium Adress
Neighbours, nobody loves you like we do.
Neighbors, your government has triumphed in finally making you a public fit
for the 21st century.
Never before has a governing body shown so much concern for the economic
well-being of its subjects.
Today we have insulated you from countless factions who threathens your
financial viability; such as the poor; the idealistic foreigners still
clinging [...]
The Future — A Pessimist’s View
The pessimistic vision of future world developments:
As no one saw the economic advatages to reversing the emissions of climate gasses, global warming was never prevented or diminished in strength. Because of this, the melting of the ice caps continued its slow progress, and sea levels rose. Also, the deforesting of the world continued, due to [...]
In the words of Joseph S. Nye, Jr…
I’m currently reading international relations theory for a paper I gotta finish ’till Friday, about whether or not the UN has changed its views on war and peace, recently. And in his “Understanding International Conflicts”, Joseph S. Nye, Jr. writes the following:
“If the League of Nations was designed to prevent World War I after the [...]
Today, I came up with a possible master thesis in political science
And I even know of a proper method to study it.
Hannah Arendt, a Jewish German political theorist, has some theories on totalitarianism that I find to be intriguing. If I remember them correctly, she argues against the typical liberal perspective: That individuals, in opposition to strong communities, are the only safeguards against totalitarianism. (Of course, [...]
The Lies of Richard Nixon
Started on my little project last night, by watching “The Assassination of Richard Nixon“. And I don’t think I’ve seen anything like it in my entire life.
Apparently, the film’s based on a true story, and revolves around the defeats of a Jewish American named Samuel Bicke. He is recently divorced, he has argued with his [...]
The Boring Diplomat
Home helping my parents with the apple harvest this weekend, and when I’m home, I always try to make my family watch a good movie. This weekend, we saw “The Constant Gardner” form 2005. Not too hard talking them into seeing it, as my mother’s a fan of John le Carré, and as there wasn’t [...]
Political Compass… 3rd time.
Took that political compass test again, and what do you know? I’ve moved both towards the right and towards the authoritarian extreme. In febuary, I ended up at -9.38 on the left-right axis, and at -8.46 on the authoritarian-libertarian axis.
This time, on the other hand, I ended up at -5.38/-6.72. Which probably just goes to [...]
Theories in IR: Radicalism — lecture #7
Central topics.
Radical theories are often concerned with the role of states in the international economy. Being based on the works of Marx, they also tend to focus in the preeminence of the economic structure over other spheres of society, both as an object of analysis and as a driving force behind social change. Furthermore, Radicals [...]
Finally! My Antiquity Collection Is Complete!
Today, after looking for Thucydides‘ “The History of the Peloponnesian War” for over a year, I finally found it!
This means that I’ve finally completed my collection of what I consider to be the pearls of Hellas, which in addtition to Thucydides’ masterpiece includes Plato’s “The Republic“, Herodotus‘ “Histories” and and Xenophon’s “The Persian [...]
Theories in IR: Liberalism — Lecture #5
Liberalism is often understood as the opposite, or the adversary, if you will, of Realism.
Topics important to Liberalists.
First of all, Liberalists are concerned with how international institutions simplifies cooperation and historical changes. They’re also preoccupied with studying how transnational relations (international relations in which non-governmental organizations participates) affects the foreign policy of states. Liberalists are [...]
“Oh noes! The little seal babies!” :o
I just came home from watching “Thank You For Smoking” at on of the local cinemas, and I’m still somewhat in a shock. Because. This. Was. Awesome.
Nick Naylor is a de facto spin doctor for a conglomerate of tobacco companies. His job is basically to twist the perspectives of public opinion, by sowing doubts about [...]
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