Sarah Paine is a professor of History and Grand Strategy at the U.S. Naval War College. This excellent lecture sheds a lot of light on strategy in the Pacific in WW2, and contains great illustrations of how worldview affects decision making and strategy. Recommended. This one’s next: See also: One Hundred Million Souls for the… Read More »| Driverless Crocodile
Arendt wrote the prologue to The Human Condition not long after the successful launch of Sputnik raised the first realistic prospect of humanity taking its first steps off-planet, and in the shadow of threatening and perplexing developments in atomic and quantum physics (see her comments on the crisis of language in the sciences). It’s a… Read More »Hannah Arendt on science, language, politics and our future machine overlords The post Hannah Arendt on science, language, politics and our...| Driverless Crocodile
The latest book review from The Psmiths (Jane, this time) is itself an excellent read. As she says, “forget everything you think you know about cargo cults”. Here’s a highlight to get you started: “Cargo” is the catchall word for Western material culture in Pidgin English,4 the lingua franca of New Guinea’s many language isolates,… Read More »Jane Psmith on Cargo Cults, local politics and mutual misunderstanding The post Jane Psmith on Cargo Cults, local politics and mutual mi...| Driverless Crocodile