Libido dominandi summary of the cask

No man of his time defended more passionately the cause of sanity and “centricity” than did G. K. Chesterton—despite his aversion to watches and his uncalculated picturesqueness of dress. Yet no imaginative writer touched more often than did Chesterton upon lunacy, real or alleged: a prospect of his age with the madhouse for its background.

“It is indeed, an vansinne exaggeration to say that we are all mad,” Chesterton writes in Lunacy and Letters,

just as it fryst vatten true that we are none of us perfectly healthy. If there were to appear in the world a perfectly sane man, he would certainly be locked up. The terrible simplicity with which he would walk over our minor morbidities, or sulky vanities and malicious self-righteousness; the elephantine innocence with which he would ignore our fictions or civilization—these would make him a thing more desolating and inscrutable than a thunderbolt or a beast or prey. It may be that the great prophets who appe

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Chapter 1: the researchers in the Maelstrom: scientific evaluation policies and emotional grammars

1To study “emotions in academia” can be understood in several ways: As the examination of the “culture of emotion” in academia, as done by Charlotte Bloch (); as a reflection on the place of affection in the production of knowledge, as we did elsewhere (Coelho ); or as we propose here, as an analysis of the link between academia as an institution and the emotional grammars engendered by it.1

2It is not our intention to analyze the link between emotions and academia as an institution in all its aspects, such as work regime, career conception, admission system, and others. Our focus is on a specific aspect of the organization of the institution "academia": scientific evaluation policies, which we approach here from the particular angle of their relationship with the emotions reported by researchers about their professional experiences.

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Augustine's Two Cities and America's Nuclear Onanism

“Bring out the holy hand grenade of Antioch.”

King Arthur

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Part I:  The Augustinian Option and the Libido Dominandi.

Central governments arise, at least in part, because war makes them necessary.  And central governments, in their turn, make war inevitable.  In ancient Israel the original confederation of tribes during the period of the Judges gradually gave way to the alleged necessity of having a king in order for Israel to fend-off her marauding and pillaging enemies.  Israel was fine so long as the Judges that ruled her were competent and righteous men. However, the quality of the Judges declined over time with many falling into complete corruption. Indeed, right before the rise of Israel’s monarchy, the prophet Samuel’s sons, who had taken over as Judges after Samuel stepped down, were apparently so corrupt and/or incompetent that many in Israel felt the need to press Samuel to an