tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post2053896351886821787..comments2024-03-28T09:59:13.754-07:00Comments on bionic mosquito: The Road to Sovereigntybionic mosquitohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-31441058152226519212018-06-14T07:46:51.810-07:002018-06-14T07:46:51.810-07:00I will read this post more carefully later. I so g...I will read this post more carefully later. I so glad you quoted Barzun and Nisbet with regards to Hobbes. I have read Leviathan and my conclusion was that Hobbes supposed fathering of the totalitarian state was wrong. Hobbes does write about agency and that that agency/agent be explicitly empowered to do the task delegated, that such agency/agent has no authority to go beyond that which was delegated. But, Hobbes did warn of the danger of an agency/agent trying to increase its authority and justify it by claiming a need to properly accomplish the delegated task. That is why the English monarchy was suspicious of Hobbes - the monarchy ruled not by Divine Right but by the people's delegation of authority/power. Remember, the principal is always above the agent and that equation cannot be altered without severe consequences.JaimeInTexashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08729407700850451849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-52453222161508806662018-06-13T22:17:18.162-07:002018-06-13T22:17:18.162-07:00Schematically, Foucault tells us, the problem for ...Schematically, Foucault tells us, the problem for political power in the middle ages was the control of territory. For the political power of the modern state, the problem transformed into the problem of the control of populations. It was within this transformation where such institutions were first deployed as the public school, the penitentiary, the police, the hospital, the elaboration and bureaucratization of the courts, and even the universities which served to bureaucratize fields of knowledge the better to regulate what could be thought.Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12985538497409080098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-8799548834300421822018-06-13T06:30:48.976-07:002018-06-13T06:30:48.976-07:00I admire and appreciate this work you do, Mr. Bion...I admire and appreciate this work you do, Mr. Bionic, and am a consistent reader of this blog. I also find the comments from other of your readers to be helpful to my understanding of “how the world works.” As a footnote, I recently re-read all of Edith Pargeter’s (Ellis Peters) Brother Cadfael books. These are set in 12th Century England, and Cadfael is a monk who in younger days spent years participating in the Crusades before returning to England and joining the church. If you aren’t familiar, I believe you would enjoy Pargeter’s grasp of medieval everyday life in Europe in that time period, and in particular the juxtaposition of the church and secular authority. I’m also slogging my way through Barzun’s magnum opus after reading your commentary on it, and will eventually get to the Nisbet book you are recently examining. Thank you again, and please carry on. Peggy in OregonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com