tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5360814020056871156.post8777239068227644669..comments2024-03-03T13:55:46.243-08:00Comments on Ambling Along the Aqueduct: DevastationTimmi Duchamphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00673465487533328661noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5360814020056871156.post-64057937141962618442010-01-19T07:49:31.364-08:002010-01-19T07:49:31.364-08:00I finally broke down and decided to use an RSS rea...I finally broke down and decided to use an RSS reader, and wow! did the world break wide open for me! The rate of technological change continues to amaze me (and creep me out). Anyway, this post seemed relevant. One question for readers here: Do you look at comments after the original post is out of date? If you see this, please comment.<br /><br />The post is more about CLR James' "The Black Jacobins", which Tailgeese referred to. <br /><br />http://crookedtimber.org/2010/01/15/history-is-the-devils-scripture/#more-14433<br /><br />The article is "History is the Devil’s Scripture" by Scott McLemee, posted on the <i>Crooked Timber</i> blog on January 15, 2010.<br /><br />I got to it through the <i>Hoyden About Town</i> blog (http://hoydenabouttown.com/), which is very coolUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07261156769469311687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5360814020056871156.post-80976581167281287402010-01-16T08:47:41.064-08:002010-01-16T08:47:41.064-08:00There's an immediate need here, but also a lon...There's an immediate need here, but also a long-term one. What's going to happen during the rebuild of Haiti? <br /><br />A request for funds came in from the Batay Ouvriye Haiti Solidarity Network in Haiti. Batay Ouvriye is a grassroots organization of unions, workers, and peasants.<br /><br />Here's the link to the request:<br /><br />http://www.anarkismo.net/article/15501<br /><br />Money sent to Batay Ourvriye goes directly to an organization democratically and directly run by the poor.<br /><br />And here's more about Batay Ouvriye:<br /><br />http://www.batayouvriye.org/Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07261156769469311687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5360814020056871156.post-1731343659729317612010-01-14T19:25:58.149-08:002010-01-14T19:25:58.149-08:00While the Haitian Revolution occurred during the t...While the Haitian Revolution occurred during the time of the Enlightenment, CLR James' "The Black Jacobins" states that the Haitian Revolution began with a voudoun ceremony -- which is not the same thing a making a pact with the devil (although I doubt Pat Robertson could tell the difference). Voudoun is an Afro-Caribbean religion. So in a sense, the ultimate Enlightenment Revolution was also the first anti-eurocentric revolution.Tallgeesehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16045006122540505779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5360814020056871156.post-84224505337137613972010-01-13T20:08:10.521-08:002010-01-13T20:08:10.521-08:00I notice the CBN issued a pathetic press release i...I notice the CBN issued a <a href="http://www.cbn.com/aboutpressrelease_patrobertson_haiti.aspx" rel="nofollow">pathetic press release</a> in an effort to explain Robertson's obscene remarks. Though I'm not sure they improved on things. While they use the term "allegedly" to discuss the pact with the devil, they also say that "countless scholars ... believe the island to be cursed." <br /><br />I'm not sure which is worse: the callous disregard for human suffering in the interest of promoting a supposedly religious agenda or statements that show either ignorance of history or a complete fabrication of it. <br /><br />Not to mention that there's no such thing as a pact with the devil in the mystical sense nor such things as magical curses that afflict multiple generations of a nation. Why do we even countenance nonsense like this with a response? (Except, of course, that some people will believe any amount of crap from people like Robertson.)Nancy Jane Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01030267999537291250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5360814020056871156.post-57563285502898638862010-01-13T17:34:45.947-08:002010-01-13T17:34:45.947-08:00IIRC, Robertson's and Falwell's anti-Ameri...IIRC, Robertson's and Falwell's anti-American rhetoric in the days after 9/11 was too toxic even for Fox News to touch. But Fred Phelps took it up, and Dinesh D'Souza wrote a book with a thesis not unlike theirs.<br /><br />I had no idea that Enlightenment revolutions were spurred by Satan -- sounds, in this case, like a version of "outside agitators" corrupting black Southerners.Joshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15914730499199048197noreply@blogger.com