Part twenty-four of the Us and Them series. Shahid Bolsen examines why alliance with the West is impossible — not because of any particular position it holds, but because of how those positions are arrived at, and how quickly they are abandoned. Why certain vocabulary functions as an identifier rather than an argument.
What the dog-piling on one musician actually accomplished, and for whom. Why a movement can dominate a country and then evaporate while the conditions that produced it remain untouched. And why a civilization that believes it is on the verge of building a thinking machine has not understood what thinking is.
What the dog-piling on one musician actually accomplished, and for whom. Why a movement can dominate a country and then evaporate while the conditions that produced it remain untouched. And why a civilization that believes it is on the verge of building a thinking machine has not understood what thinking is.
Shahid Bolsen
