center study

I have never seen anyone focus on the modern legislature as the locus of political transformation and disorder, but it’s certainly a promising line of inquiry.

Somewhere along the way the potential of the medieval parliament to check and counter the king got transformed by the revolutionary process of modernity into a circular, self-dealing, self-perpetuating and self-aggrandizing institution by which all the specifically modern disciplines and institutions collaborate not so much to govern, as to ensure that what governance will be done will not interfere with this process itself.

The emerging model of billionaires funding key pieces of government infrastructure - the Dells seeded the Trump accounts, TSA, DoD salaries - is interesting, with lots of potential implications, especially once you combine this model with executive reforms and precedents Trump has made Now combine this with the ongoing, decades-long shift away from Congress and towards the presidency and the judiciary as the centers of American political life, you can see how all this could combine to create a very different type of American political system and economy

We will be returning speech back to its most originary condition, the promise, to which one will be zealously held (albeit with vehicles of forgiveness).

We will be returning speech back to its most originary condition, the promise, to which one will be zealously held (albeit with vehicles of forgiveness).

The condition of the leader of an organization who has to run every statement past legal will become the general condition and this will also mean that genuinely truth-telling individuals who can successfully defeat lawsuits against them will come across as especially free, uninhibited, and trustworthy—and enormously admirable.

Our thinking about politics is still dominated by imagining ourselves on a single scene, like the originary scene, in its ritual reiterations, receiving what is “due” to us due to our contribution. The destruction of the ritual scene was set in motion by the first “usurpers” of the center, leading, for example, to the invention of money and debt as a way of providing for a mediated relationship to the ritual scene; the destruction of kingship, which was sacralized as a way of maintaining a ritualized order, means the final destruction of the ritual scene. Without the “backing” of ritual, all our concepts of “justice” and “legitimacy” are, in effect “fiat” concepts, held together by increasing desperate exercises of power, assertions of “expertise” (themselves attempts to confer a kind of ersatz sacrality on decision makers) and scapegoating of enemies accused of preventing a client group from receiving its due.

The cloud of unknowing that blankets the modern world has its starting point when the British state jump-started itself an empire by subordinating itself to the central bank and writing itself out an unlimited line of credit. And from that point on I don’t think we can say the ruling classes themselves know what they’re doing. Everyone has just been reacting to the British initiative, which was then inherited by the US, while the Anglo-American empire has been mostly preempting potential challengers

“Fort Knox is Empty”

A friend made the point that our global regime is tied to the birth of the English “Parties” & the English Central Bank. This seems like a significant development.

center study is a kind of programming idiom to be made interoperable with other idioms