I was in tears about Kevin Drum; I can remember even before he was at the Washington Monthly. Absolutely unique voice that will not be replaced. (I will happily watch anything and everything with subtitles and was excited to read the words of "Dance The Night" off the screen since Dua Lipa is hardly the most intelligible singer in the world)
"This is why there are no long-standing presidential democracies save for the United States."
The French presidential system had been in force since 1958 and has some similarities with US presidential democracy - some important differences are summarised below (source: Google AI overview)
"The French semi-presidential system grants the President more power than the US presidential system, with the French President holding the head of state and having significant influence over the government, while the US President, as both head of state and government, faces greater checks and balances.
Here's a more detailed comparison:
French Semi-Presidential System:
Head of State and Government:
The French President is both the head of state and holds significant influence over the government, although a Prime Minister also serves as the head of government.
Power:
The French President has considerable power, including the ability to dissolve parliament and appoint the Prime Minister, and can issue decrees with the force of law.
Impeachment:
The French Constitution does not provide for any impeachment of the president, and the president's power is subject to fewer restrictions"
On Gantz quote (so far up at the top of the page) and the other.
"fundamental misrecognition of the _Other_: the other is just a thing, some material for exploitation or domination. "
The proportions are best described as follows:
(self:other) : world
The world must be included as this is where the dance of (self:other) takes place. Focussing on the other per se is in any psycho-socio-pathology, well, incomplete. By including the world we can begin to fix nomothetic pathologies, at least by giving them a name.
For the narcissist, it is the same as the quote above from Gantz describes for those two political types, these ratios and their proportions in the world collapse and the self consumes the possibility of the other,
self=other
In addition to this, in this same moment, because that dance disappears, so the self and the world also form a singularity because the other has disappeared.
self=world
It occurs across all politics as the narcissit is an obligate parasite on [(self:other) : world]. Currently right wing politics have been very bad at policing this (by lacking self-regulation -- pun intended). But these singletarian unverses live everywhere among us.
I call this collapse, (self=other)+(self=world) : a sweorlfd
They claim to be individuals because their POV is apparent to themselves, but there is no perspective because there are no boundaries.
Worlding and the labour theory of value (wherein I invented the word sweorlfd )
And on the difference between narcissism (wherein Freud's reality principle has failed) and the monotropic self-project that catches up with some autists because the self is near to hand
If people haven't already worked out that Trump is a narcissist, why would they act on the information. Why does this person think his pointing it out (as many already have) will be worth bothering with?
I think it is important to get to the place where we police the narcissistic on our side. We can only do that by bringing the matter to the common ground. And comparing notes. Having meetings makes us human.
If we only say person X is N, and they are those on the other side then that meeting does not happen. We are more likely to know who the ones on our side are.
I guess it is old style consciousness raising, before it went all woke or based or maga-ed.
Then we can get on with stuff.
While we do have selection of candidates and there are some qualifications usually not all written down, it would be good if the narcissists in office were the exception not the rule. I.E. if they were ruled out in the first place and we had a common language about it.
I am liberal enough to think any 'system' would work if they were excluded form office and the rest of us not given to dogmatic/ indulgent behaviours which they surf to power on. Currently I am unaware of any group of people who have decided to excluded unfixable humans.
I don't think much of that is possible in our system of competitive attention seeking as the currency of our political system. Narcissism, when it's successful socially and politically is a kind of counterfeiting. And counterfeiting is a difficult problem to tackle.
It's true that Trump is an extreme case, but even there, in our system people seem to feel minimal need to address it. In the meantime, narcissism is rife in pretty much all areas of life, particularly towards the top, where there aren't strong imperatives from reality — which there are not in public and private bureaucracy and in politics.
In fact the guy you linked to struck me as being on rather abnormally good terms with himself ;)
I was in tears about Kevin Drum; I can remember even before he was at the Washington Monthly. Absolutely unique voice that will not be replaced. (I will happily watch anything and everything with subtitles and was excited to read the words of "Dance The Night" off the screen since Dua Lipa is hardly the most intelligible singer in the world)
"This is why there are no long-standing presidential democracies save for the United States."
The French presidential system had been in force since 1958 and has some similarities with US presidential democracy - some important differences are summarised below (source: Google AI overview)
"The French semi-presidential system grants the President more power than the US presidential system, with the French President holding the head of state and having significant influence over the government, while the US President, as both head of state and government, faces greater checks and balances.
Here's a more detailed comparison:
French Semi-Presidential System:
Head of State and Government:
The French President is both the head of state and holds significant influence over the government, although a Prime Minister also serves as the head of government.
Power:
The French President has considerable power, including the ability to dissolve parliament and appoint the Prime Minister, and can issue decrees with the force of law.
Impeachment:
The French Constitution does not provide for any impeachment of the president, and the president's power is subject to fewer restrictions"
Yes, I recall wondering about France when reading it a couple of years ago.
(Also when the Other Israel Film Festival was virtual I needed the subtitles but was sometimes happy to recognize bits and pieces of the dialogue)
On Gantz quote (so far up at the top of the page) and the other.
"fundamental misrecognition of the _Other_: the other is just a thing, some material for exploitation or domination. "
The proportions are best described as follows:
(self:other) : world
The world must be included as this is where the dance of (self:other) takes place. Focussing on the other per se is in any psycho-socio-pathology, well, incomplete. By including the world we can begin to fix nomothetic pathologies, at least by giving them a name.
For the narcissist, it is the same as the quote above from Gantz describes for those two political types, these ratios and their proportions in the world collapse and the self consumes the possibility of the other,
self=other
In addition to this, in this same moment, because that dance disappears, so the self and the world also form a singularity because the other has disappeared.
self=world
It occurs across all politics as the narcissit is an obligate parasite on [(self:other) : world]. Currently right wing politics have been very bad at policing this (by lacking self-regulation -- pun intended). But these singletarian unverses live everywhere among us.
I call this collapse, (self=other)+(self=world) : a sweorlfd
They claim to be individuals because their POV is apparent to themselves, but there is no perspective because there are no boundaries.
Worlding and the labour theory of value (wherein I invented the word sweorlfd )
part 1 https://whyweshould.substack.com/p/worlding-and-the-labour-theory-of
part 2 https://whyweshould.substack.com/p/worlding-and-the-labour-theory-of-e7e
part 3 https://whyweshould.substack.com/p/worlding-and-the-labour-theory-of-5d0
part 4 https://whyweshould.substack.com/p/worlding-and-the-labour-theory-of-941
In which I begin a post-liberal project of the meta-anarchist (that's a joke peeps).
some Iris Murdoch posts for the fat egos
https://whyweshould.substack.com/p/noting-iris-murdoch-quoting-wittgenstein
https://whyweshould.substack.com/p/iris-murdoch-and-the-good-of-it
And on the difference between narcissism (wherein Freud's reality principle has failed) and the monotropic self-project that catches up with some autists because the self is near to hand
https://whyweshould.substack.com/p/monotropism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmTeg0B9tH8
If people haven't already worked out that Trump is a narcissist, why would they act on the information. Why does this person think his pointing it out (as many already have) will be worth bothering with?
I think it is important to get to the place where we police the narcissistic on our side. We can only do that by bringing the matter to the common ground. And comparing notes. Having meetings makes us human.
If we only say person X is N, and they are those on the other side then that meeting does not happen. We are more likely to know who the ones on our side are.
I guess it is old style consciousness raising, before it went all woke or based or maga-ed.
Then we can get on with stuff.
While we do have selection of candidates and there are some qualifications usually not all written down, it would be good if the narcissists in office were the exception not the rule. I.E. if they were ruled out in the first place and we had a common language about it.
I am liberal enough to think any 'system' would work if they were excluded form office and the rest of us not given to dogmatic/ indulgent behaviours which they surf to power on. Currently I am unaware of any group of people who have decided to excluded unfixable humans.
I don't think much of that is possible in our system of competitive attention seeking as the currency of our political system. Narcissism, when it's successful socially and politically is a kind of counterfeiting. And counterfeiting is a difficult problem to tackle.
It's true that Trump is an extreme case, but even there, in our system people seem to feel minimal need to address it. In the meantime, narcissism is rife in pretty much all areas of life, particularly towards the top, where there aren't strong imperatives from reality — which there are not in public and private bureaucracy and in politics.
In fact the guy you linked to struck me as being on rather abnormally good terms with himself ;)
well he lived in Australia and Tonga for a while
Well, that proves my point.
(I'll leave the proof as an exercise for the reader)