Quite some time ago in an introductory note to a re-worked novel Algis Budrys used the phrase… (A literate gloss of the "Great Man" trope.) Can we recognize those who "make history in excess" at the time? Or only after?
We often talk about politicians and other leaders here. Yet we seem to have no dependable means of determining who will make history in excess, or how. And, indeed, are loath to credit anyone living with doing so.
That may be an interesting topic. But I'd prefer another…
What does the mere phrase "History in excess" mean?
As an averred conservative, I have an inkling. I'd like to hear other opinions.
What does the mere phrase "History in excess" mean?
As an averred conservative, I have an inkling. I'd like to hear other opinions.
The quotation comes from Algys Budris.
Everybody makes history, but the history I've woven over the decades hardly compares to that woven by Lincoln, Stalin or Jesus.
What I do have is a fascination with how many pyrotechnically successful leaders in history have been strangers to the cultures they came to rule... and how many were physically peculiar in some way, how many passed through a major crisis that ought to have destroyed them, and how little their biographers have succeeded in explaining their turns of mind. They were people who did not fit their world, and somehow emerged with the capability to change their world to fit them. A sample list would begin with Genghiz Khan and Timur-i-Leng, and include Napoleon Buonaparte, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin, but it could be extended backward and, I rather think, forward in time. Not all history-making political figures emerge from some such background, but it's striking how many of them do, and how often they are the ones who make history in excess.
I have the story in text file form if you're interested.
Those who make up history in excess would have to be historians. Be they professional, amateur, or agitator, they are the ones that make (up) the stories, the narratives, we judge our past by.
Few have more than a fleeting interest in a past unrelated to our own future, so it is to the degree that this connection can be made people's greatness is measured, a perceptional trick of perspective. Were there no historians to conjure up these stories we would have to judge the passing of people or ideas by their wake, and our views would be no less distorted.
There's no History, each moment, place and reality has its own "history".
History is a fluid and always transforming mental representation aimed to give us a sense of existence, that we'l be lost without it.
If there's "history in excess" that's because present demands it. In other words, too less present.
History excess
that goes different in my mind
Overdo History ? :monkey:
we can not be immortal , but if our name is immortal ( well-known till the apocalypse ) .
i think that would be fun . :right:
I see i wasn't mentioned amongst the history people from jimbro, tut, tut. Anyway I am in a whole chapter of a book now in a reference library so at least I have posterity! :D
RJ, have you any idea how often E. coli is mentioned… :)
RJ, have you any idea how often E. coli is mentioned… :)
Yes, even E. Coli has its history. All that's missing is the history of Madame E. Coli.
History. Theodore von Escherich, a German bacteriologist, discovered the bacterium Escherichia coli in 1885. The bacterium, commonly known as E. coli, can be found in the human intestinal tract and comes in multiple forms, only one of which is deadly.
I am in a whole chapter of a book now in a reference library so at least I have posterity!
I would like to read this 'book'. Care to name it?
I would like to read this 'book'. Care to name it?
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Is the filming and reporting of war an example of history in excess? How much bombing, shooting and killing would you consider excessive? Does the excess of all video recorded violence in history have a negative impact on our society today or does it serve to remind us of the consequences of repeating some of our more disastrous and loathsome history?
I would think that religion or religiosity is an example of history is excess, although I'm not quite sure what you are driving at with this post. The significance of one religion or religious icon over another has certainly stifled the progress of humankind on this planet; too much ado can be made out of anyone or anything if enough people are crazy enough to believe it. There is little, if any "good" historical evidence for who Jesus really was. The Apostles John, Matthew, Paul, etc., did not write the books of gospel named after them, those books are 2 to 3 generations removed from the time of Jesus. They are stories of someone who heard the stories from someone else who heard the stories from yet another, how reliable could one consider that? And would anyone of sane mind place the fate of mankind in the thrice removed accounts of that ancient and highly superstitious heresay? Now were talking history not only in excess, but in ad absurdum.
The media reporting of current news and thus history, is done in excess-of-excess often times, but that's just my personal opinion. How much of that hype actually becomes significant reported history is undoubtedly very small. Therefore, I would have to say that the decision makers of how much significance to give to certain episodes in history, are those who are responsible for its excess. :knight: :cheers:
There is little, if any "good" historical evidence for who Jesus really was.
Nor for these great gods who had Jesus traits. Hard to believe, eh?
1. Horus
Horus was one of the many Egyptian Gods. This is probably one of the best-known and contested deities that is often compared to Jesus. Some translations and Egyptian myths say that he had 12 disciples, and was born of a virgin in a cave. His birth was announced by a star, and was attended by three wise men. He was baptized at age thirty by Anup the Baptizer. Horus performed miracles, including rising at least one person from the dead and walking on water. He was crucified, buried in a tomb, and resurrected, just like Jesus.
2. Buddha (563 B.C.)
Buddha’s mother, Queen Maha Maya, had a dream that a white elephant with six tusks entered her right side, impregnating her. As was tradition in this time, the mother left her husband’s kingdom to give birth near her father. She did not make it the entire way, though, and gave birth while traveling. Buddha was born in a garden beneath a tree. In addition to this birth story, Buddha, like Jesus, also performed miracles, healed the sick, walked on water, fed 500 men from a single basket of cakes, was transfigured on a mount, and taught chastity, temperance, tolerance, compassion, love, and the equality of all. There are also some texts that say he was crucified, spent three days in hell, and was resurrected. That is not what killed him, though, as he died in his old age from what is believed to be food poisoning.
3. Mithra (2000 B.C.)
Mithra was an ancient Zoroastrian deity, and along with Horus has some of the most striking similarities to Jesus. Yet another example of virginal birth, Mithra was born to the virgin Anahita on December 25th. He was swaddled and placed in a manger, where he was tended to by shepherds. Like Jesus and Horus, he had 12 companions (which can be interpreted as disciples). He also performed miracles, identified with both the lion and the lamb, sacrificed his life to save the world, was dead for three days before being resurrected, and was known as the messiah, the savior, and “the Way, the Truth and the Light.” His religion also had a Eucharistic-style “Lord’s supper.”
4. Krishna (around 3000 B.C.)
Krishna, a Hindu God, was born after his mother was impregnated by a God. His birth was attended by angels, wise men, and shepherds, and he was presented with gold, frankincense, and myrrh. Like Jesus, when Krishna was born, a tyrant had ordered the slaughter of all newborns. In addition, he was baptized in a river, performed miracles, raised the dead, healed the deaf and blind, used parables to teach charity and love, rose from the dead and ascended to heaven, and it is believe he will someday return to earth to battle the “Prince of Evil.”
5. Osiris (around 2500 B.C.)
Osiris was the son of one of the many Egyptian Gods. Like Jesus, Osiris was portrayed as a bearded man, and his myth says that he was killed and the resurrected after three days in hell. Also like Jesus, Osiris performed miracles, had 12 disciples, and taught that people could be born again through baptism in water. In addition, Osiris had many titles, including “Lord of Lords,” “King of Kings,” and “Good Shepherd.”
Unfortunately the man who did the book with plenty of pictures (he was from Glasgow University) made it a limited circulation production. The Mitchell Reference Library here in Glasgow is a famous place used by students and others. The tome was on particular people in voluntary work especially youth who became well known for what they did. The author who had known of me for years made a point of interviewing and using what he knew so future generations will know what people like me an others did and certainly with the influences no sniggering myth. Earlier i had further stated that I was interviewed for 15 minutes by BBC Radio and a private radio station years before that. At one point very nearly a tv documentary so it doesn't really bother me much what prattles on this forum.
Unfortunately the man who did the book […] made it a limited circulation production.
Here in the land of euphemism we call such the output of a Vanity Press… :) For obvious reasons, you won't understand the reference,
RJ.
Earlier i had further stated that I was interviewed for 15 minutes by BBC Radio and a private radio station years before that. At one point very nearly a tv documentary so it doesn't really bother me much what prattles on this forum.
Yeah...
There's no shortage of idiots they've let on the radio. May be I'm just used to the Volunteer State but it doesn't sound like anything to let go to your head... And almost only counts with horseshoes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoes) and hand-grenades, as the saying goes.
What does the mere phrase "History in excess" mean?
What does the phrase "Mathematics in excess" mean? Or science in excess, that should be simple enough for you...lol. :knight: :cheers:
Or science in excess, that should be simple enough for you...
Now, pooping in excess...that means something!
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As they would say here in Scotia that really is 'keech.'
What does the phrase "Mathematics in excess" mean? Or science in excess, that should be simple enough for you...lol.
How, with your literal-mindedness, have you managed to survive as long as you have, I wonder? :)
But I'll play with your "questions" a bit:
Measurement precision is not usually a difficulty. But imagine -if you will- someone who can't solve trigonometric equations to his satisfaction because π can't be written out in decimal notation… (Math in excess!)
The Many Worlds interpretation of modern physics is an example of science in excess… (As Feynman said a long time ago, Quantum Electrodynamics doesn't make sense: You don't "understand" it; you calculate!)
Yet, if you'd think (for yourself) for a moment, "history in excess" is a different animal!
The quotation comes from Algys Budris. […]
Everybody makes history, but the history I've woven over the decades hardly compares to that woven by Lincoln, Stalin or Jesus.
I have the story in text file form if you're interested.
I have a second-hand Baen Publications edition from 1991… (But thanks anyway.) And -if you've given up your aversion to science-fiction, might I recommend William Tenn's "Of Men and Monsters"?
Get half-way through it, and I guarantee the ending will surprise -and tickle- you! :)
For those who may be wondering, my take on the phrase "history in excess" is akin to that ancient Chinese curse "May you live in interesting times!"
Measurement precision is not usually a difficulty. But imagine -if you will- someone who can't solve trigonometric equations to his satisfaction because π can't be written out in decimal notation… (Math in excess!)
Math in excess? Or your imaginary fellow's satisfaction/expectations in excess? I certainly didn't realize that "satisfaction" was now an axiom of trigonometry (do you have the 'proof' for it?), and just what is your concern for this poor unfortunate OCD friend of yours anyway? Do you ever actually live life or do you just constantly read about it with drink in hand and snicker?
For those who may be wondering, my take on the phrase "history in excess" is akin to that ancient Chinese curse "May you live in interesting times!"
Since we cannot choose when or where or even
if we care to be born, this is just ancient Chinese nonsense and since the phrase didn't arise until the 20th century, it's really just plano nonsense (was it the Chinese part what attracted you to it?). And you really contemplate this sh*t? A mind is a terrible thing to waste you know. Do you long to be born in a different era (past or future), or a different place, or of different parents? The times you live in are what they are and since there are few intervals of uninteresting times (peaceful) in any age, what you see is what you get. Your overindulgence in such matters is what is in excess my friend, imho. :knight: :cheers:
Sometimes we can choose when to die. :left:
I tried to do that--didn't work. Suicide in excess?...lol!! How much is too much? :knight: :cheers:
I guess history is forgotten, in this thread at least.
It is all history. :knight: :cheers:
I guess history is forgotten […]
One typical prelude to the onset of "excess history"… :)
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James, you might find something of interest (and an inkling of understanding, of my interests and viewpoints) in this recent paper (http://www.nationalaffairs.com/doclib/20150319_Alicea.pdf)…
Try it! You might like it!
James, you might find something of interest (and an inkling of understanding, of my interests and viewpoints) in this recent paper (http://www.nationalaffairs.com/doclib/20150319_Alicea.pdf)…
Try it! You might like it!
It seems to me that the 'rule of the dead' can never be eliminated from our constitution, lest we have our constitution be so generalized in its form as to make in an ineffective document altogether. Jefferson as well as Paine suggested a new constitution be written every 19 years (30 years for Paine), which is simply imposing more 'rule of the dead' to a generation that is perhaps quite content and prefers to allow sleeping dogs to lie. The choice between a permanent or temporary constitution is important if for no other reason than the ways it will affect constitutional change in the future. However, it is not a choice that allows the present generation to disclaim responsibility for what happens in the future. What we choose today affects tomorrow--sounds a lot like both law and life, eh? It seems we will always be rowing against the current and brought back perpetually into the past. History in excess. :knight: :cheers:
EDIT: History in excess? Or perhaps the best we can do for now until science figures this all out...lol.
History in excess? Maybe. Every day we keep making more of it, so I guess there's no chance of a shortage of history any time soon.
Some would say that we need less history and more herstory.
History in excess? Well the Yesterday Channel has been going over and over WW2 and SS atrocities to the point of nullifying much and to the point of sighing.
A period and a question mark!? Well, it's a start…
A period and a question mark!? Well, it's a start…
Magnanimity in excess. :knight: :cheers:
What we choose today affects tomorrow--sounds a lot like both law and life, eh?
Had you got far enough into the article to read the words:
[…] the conservative legal movement’s adoption of originalism was no mere happenstance or relationship of convenience. It is, rather, founded on shared philosophical premises: a belief in the value of the past, the duties of the present, and the delicacy of a legal regime founded on both. Originalism, properly understood, has endeavored to preserve — and where necessary, restore — that regime in the face of relentless scholarly criticism, political attacks, and the ever-present desire to break free from
the constraints that prevent us from doing what we will.
(emphasis added)
I'm not sure you will understand my point, even with the underlining…
But put it in another context: Scientific consensus… Can you not see the difference? And why they
must be different…?
You do -despite being a non-religious- accept some common morality? From whence does it come?
(Did you just accept what others did…? Did you
grok it, on your own? — There seem to be no other sources left to you,
James!) If you don't know -or care- where it comes from, then you are un-interested. (And, hence, not allowed to argue… :) )
[…} (Oops! Tired! Must sleep… You can continue to think, if you'd like; I've no problem with considered opinions!)
I'm not sure you will understand my point, even with the underlining…
But put it in another context: Scientific consensus… Can you not see the difference? And why they must be different…?
"...from doing what we will". The illusion of free will is great indeed and no one will ever live their life as if they have no free will (not even lunatics). Everything we think, do and say is based on the past; every thought that crosses your mind is downstream from unconscious thinking that draws on and arrives at conscious choices by the only means it can--past experience. Trace your morality and all else back to what you learned from parents, peers and environment and continue tracing all of that back until you reach the big bang. If you had the free will to choose the next thought that will come into your mind, then you would have the ability to think of it before you ever actually thought it. Or try 'free willing' your way out of the next morning's constitutional--the past and science dictate all that we do.
An aimless and unguided universe was set in motion some 13.8 billion years ago and progressed naturally to its present state. The universe had no free will to decide on what was to happen next, it just did what it did according to the laws of nature governing it--those laws are the only "gods". Life is nothing special except when we look back at the past and see the long (yet simple) processes involved to bring it all about. As intelligent life, we are in awe of the fact that we can comprehend the universe and ourselves--we simply haven't got used to the idea yet. Before we could comprehend the universe we invented gods that explained it in the unscientific way of our thinking at that time. Inevitably some continue that primitive thinking, but time will soon erase it all like a bad dream that is erased upon awakening to reality.
The past is what keeps us doing what we do and there is no free will to do otherwise, everything is built upon and guided by the past. There is no present or future, it is all the past. The present is fleeting into the past instantaneously down to the Plank level of time, beyond which any measurement of time and hence, time itself, simply does not exist. The future does the same and so, it is never arrived at (not arrivable?). Therefore, history (in excess?) is indispensable merely because it is the only mechanism at work that causes us (and all else), to evolve. Of course I grokked it all--how do you do it? :knight: :cheers:
The illusion of free will is great indeed
That bit of pseudo-philosophy is little more than op art, you know? :)
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Cool beans. :knight: :cheers:
EDIT: I should have added that my last comment was the byproduct of an exotic Sangria made with strawberry-kiwi-pomegranate a fine bottle of Chardonnay and a rather gifted tropical rum called Flor de Caña, drunk in the warm Florida sunshine while being distracted by two scantily clad creatures of the fairer sex. The cosmic blink of an eyelash of time that I have to be sentient in this crazy universe is fleeting and so I seem to be easily distracted these days. Cheers my friend.
The cosmic blink of an eyelash of time that I have to be sentient in this crazy universe is fleeting […]
Sorry… Yet another piece of op art pseudo-philosophy: Are you familiar with the phrase "apples and oranges"? :)
I have what might be called a "legalistic" mind: Relating minutia - to a big picture- is, I think, my
forte… (I'm probably wrong about that; I'm not as smart as I often think I am — my experience has repeatedly shown!) The various
schools of philosophy vie for ascendency. But they all -eventually- fail. Why?
Because the categories they employ are — inadequate. To the task.
What is the task?
Perhaps that is the question I should have posed…
I presume you think there is no such thing! (But you don't really think it; you just react as you've been conditioned to do; and you'll reply, again without choice — a martinet.) When, I'd ask, did you "enlist" in this cause?
(Think back,
James! When was your world so rocked, so shocked, that you decided that the best response was to absolve everyone of responsibility?)
What is the task?
Perhaps that is the question I should have posed…
I presume you think there is no such thing! (But you don't really think it; you just react as you've been conditioned to do; and you'll reply, again without choice — a martinet.) When, I'd ask, did you "enlist" in this cause?
(Think back, James! When was your world so rocked, so shocked, that you decided that the best response was to absolve everyone of responsibility?)
The task, sir, is to be optimistic, for it is only the optimists who achieve anything in this godforsaken world. Relying on a god absolves responsibility for all fools and idlers. My suicidal death and subsequent
'resurrection' brought it all home to me--I don't recommend it to others. :knight: :cheers:
The task, sir, is to be optimistic, for it is only the optimists who achieve anything in this godforsaken world. Relying on a god absolves responsibility for all fools and idlers.
Define
achieve.
I've found the gods...from Anu to Jesus...to be unreliable because absent in all ways. :cheers:
Define achieve.
Discover and prove. :knight: :cheers:
Was 1995 a year of excessive (American) history (http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/03/30/thinking-sideways)?
Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky is one of the five things that happened in 1995 that Campbell believes opened the door to the future. The others are the O. J. Simpson trial, the Oklahoma City bombing, the Dayton negotiations that settled the Bosnian war, and the rise and fall of the Internet browser Netscape Navigator.
Quote from: The New YorkerClinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky is one of the five things that happened in 1995 that Campbell believes opened the door to the future. The others are the O. J. Simpson trial, the Oklahoma City bombing, the Dayton negotiations that settled the Bosnian war, and the rise and fall of the Internet browser Netscape Navigator.
The world is not prepared for American history... too much dense. Besides, it gives us vomits.
Was 1995 a year of excessive (American) history (http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/03/30/thinking-sideways)?
Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky is one of the five things that happened in 1995 that Campbell believes opened the door to the future.
A blow-job opening the door to the future? :right:
Quote from: The New YorkerClinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky is one of the five things that happened in 1995 that Campbell believes opened the door to the future. The others are the O. J. Simpson trial, the Oklahoma City bombing, the Dayton negotiations that settled the Bosnian war, and the rise and fall of the Internet browser Netscape Navigator.
The world is not prepared for American history... too much dense. Besides, it gives us vomits.
From the
New York Times:
The Portuguese government said on Monday that it would split the bank, Banco Espírito Santo, into two. The bank’s branches, customer deposits and healthy assets are being spun off into a new entity called Novo Banco that will receive a capital infusion of 4.9 billion euros, or about $6.6 billion, from bailout funds the government and central bank control. The remaining part of Banco Espírito Santo will hold the bank’s loan portfolio and will be wound down over time. Shareholders and some creditors of the banks are expected to lose most of their money as part of the plan.
Banco Espírito Santo’s financial problems can be traced to dubious loans the bank made to prop up other businesses that were controlled by the bank’s parent company. Last week, the bank reported losses of €3.58 billion in the first six months of the year largely because of those loans. This was not merely a failure of the Portuguese officials who had the primary responsibility for supervising the bank. The European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund share some of the blame because they have been intimately involved in Portugal’s economy and financial system for the last three years after lending the country €78 billion to help it get through a financial crisis. In May, the three organizations said “bank capitalization has been significantly strengthened” in Portugal, which suggests that they were overly optimistic about the progress that had been made.
More cork and wine, Portugal, more cork and wine. The PIIGS are a burden on the IMG and the EU. More cork and wine, Portugal.