Saint Augustine of Hippo's People

 

The words Counter and Reformation when combined is when groups of people decide to go backwards and maybe try to start again. In the Catholic Tradition descriptions of counter reformations usually include the words Mendicant and discalced. Mendicant is a posh word for begging, relying on alms and charity. The primary mission of mendicants is to spread the Gospel. Discalced means to be barefooted or sandal wearing. The Vow of Poverty is a calling and in times of Counter Reformation within the Catholic Church, Discalced Mendicants were a refreshing sign of faith and trust in the Lord, they were the street musicians of hope. Following the Protestant Reformation inspired by Martin Luther, who was an Augustinian Friar, the Augustinian Order produced a Counter Reformation of Augustinian Mendicants.   

Suspended Again

 

Suspended from Facebook again. Not sure why. No doubt I aggravated a squillionaire algorithm. I'm a creative possibility that cannot be monetized, wouldn't that be a golden moment for Baxter and I. As for our level of pissed-off-ness it would be harder if the Facebook pages were filled with erudition and learning instead of tease and yearning, the crockpot of cock and bull, an easter without a resurrection and chocolate eggs. Not sure that Baxter agrees, he's waiting for god to send him his manual.

The other Anarcho-Syndicalist.

Chomsky is from the Americas. His mum and dad were Jewish Immigrants from Ukraine which back then was part of the Russia Empire. His dad, William, decided to leave Russia in 1913 to avoid being conscripted. William found work in a Baltimore Sweatshop. He went to University. When William's son, Noam Chomsky was ten he wrote an essay on the Anarcho-Syndicalist movement that briefly thrived in Barcelona before being crushed by Franco's fascists. The crux of the Anarcho-Syndicalist argument is that a person's productive life is central to his being and people should be in control of their own productive lives. Fascists don't believe that.

I Can't Help It

Call me a blasphemous amateur, it won't stop me from saying that in Western thinking the Continental Idealists and the Anglo-sphere of analytic empiricism all claim the testament to their heritage is in the Ancient Greece of Plato and Aristotle. So be wary of Greeks bearing Gifts. But there are distinctions to be made. From the Swedes, south through the People's Land of Germany and the novelists of Russia and Poland to La Belle Dame Sans Merci of Revolutionary France, these are The Continental Thinkers. The second theme is the small Island of Britannia, its attachments and memories, including the landmass of North America. These are the shopkeepers and chamber of commerce thinkers, practical minds that prefer not to talk with their hands and who would rather everyone else learn English. Chomsky is an Analytic Philosopher from the Americas who may have emerged from a clash between Behaviorism and the peculiar faiths of Anarchism, who found solace in humility and a distant contact with Kant's understanding of transcendence. Kant's transcendence submits us people to a structure that gives the phrase "I can't Help it" to both Lili Marleen's search for love, Chomsky's grasp of grammar or syntax and Kant's own understanding of morality.