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That large, violent mob, is what the media reports as "a small group of protesters," eh?

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Whatever. If you cannot understand that a particular response given to a particular question ("Whom should I study?") may not work as a very good response to another, totally different question asked by a different person, then you're welcome to go **** yourself.

It seems some Iranian suicide attack intended for U.S. ship hit a Saudi frigate instead, eh?

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/01/31/exclusive-pentagon-believes-attack-on-saudi-frigate-meant-for-us-warship.html

Im afraid that this thread has devolved into childish cartoons and insults and every time theres a small chance for learning anything (newspaper clips etc), someone decides to assert something silly and it all spirals downhill.

I visit to read clips that blatham manages to cobble up. Ive got several of the participants on ignore just for my own comfort.

Looks like Trump aint gunna get the chance to upgrade our nukes before he has to launch some.

Pity, that, but it's still cool. Them old-ass nukes still pack plenty of punch.

Soon some Iranian will be telling a tourist: "That's where Tehran used to be."

I'm putting him back on iggy. Life is short.

talking about him in 2020 just illustrates the current leadership vacuum in the Democratic Party.

That's the practice of tyrants, not a democracy. He's resembling Putin in his actions. How long is congress and the Supreme Court going to allow this tyrant to run this country?

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But whom should I study?

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Interesting question, at several levels. I'm tired so will just throw in a few things. One is that past philosophers and thinkers could only base anything they said based upon past history; they could not predict the future and thus cannot help us much politically.

Anyway, as Merleau-Ponty once put it, the politics of philosophers is that which no one follows. Same more or less is true for political scientists: their thinking is slave to past ideas and views, too preachy to be operative, too fact-based to allow for the invention of any new dream. And yet if we don't dream our future, somedy else will dream it for us... his way.

So whom should you study? My primary response is Study life. Listen to what ordinary people around you say. Read the international news for parallels. Don't rely too much on intellectuals at this point. They are as lost as anybody else.

Listen perhaps more intently to what Sanders said.

Then if you REALLY want to read stuff, Piketty is the hot thing these days.

"Some sincerely held beliefs" also applies to Hitler, Stalin, Putin and Mao, and me.

I visit to read clips that blatham manages to cobble up.