Obama & the Legacy of Pragmatic American Metaphysics

[Bled Welder]

It may further be seen that the visible tyryny of educating the debate of
variable demise in the arcany situated to the right of the limp-light
lamping is no more discriminate as indeterminate, along the order of great
men who order good and give good ordering without too much ill will due to
the bordering of races of people far blander than we...at the points of
droning, cloud-burrowing and not-ever boring missiles and other
metaphorical structures that tend to destroy or in some case bring a sort
of dis-order to what John (The) Dew-de would have tendered an unjust
barter.  This is not to mean any gene is to be engendered into the hopeful
causeways of our proudly elemental, which is to say, both elegant and
mental, notion.  Nation.  For we are a Great Lotion, both in form and
delivery, our aerial ways burn bright across the sky so that all peoples of
this world might not wake with a sad whimper, but a oh baby ba-yay-ang.

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 6:37 AM, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com
> wrote:

> The dominance of those who can control the attention of a nation of
> thanatoids, exhibitionists, violence enthusiasts, and nostalgic
> gnostics, now  threatens to make of America a people who inquire into
> inquiry, who look into, or expect leaders to investigate
> investigation, not to find what the case is or cause and effect or to
> determine anything, but to prolong protracted debate of ideas, to
> wally in the indeterminate,  and thus maintain the staus quo. Inquiry,
> as we learned from Robert Jackson after WWII is a controlled and
> directed transformation of the indeterminate into the determinate.
> What we perceive and what we conceive must be united so that problems
> identified may be given solutions. Dewey & Co did run from controversy
> and conflict, but met it head on and were determined to ascertain the
> causes of conflict. Conflict, debate, disagreement are not a problem
> in themselves and are, indeed, indicative of a healthy democracy. If
> we stop debate on health care, on education, on energy, on banking, so
> on, we will stop democracy, but we must find the causes of
> disagreement and then, rather than take one side or the other, find a
> deeper, intelligent, more inclusive solution than either side is
> advocating or putting into practice. We needn't be nationalists to
> acknowledge that America is a great experiment in democracy. And our
> pragmatism has served us well. Obama, it seems to me, is an American
> Pragmatist.  He is, as he said in the speach on Rev Wright and Race, a
> story that is not possible in any other place in the world. He may not
> be a shining light upon a hill, but he is a pragmatic president and
> that is what we need now.
>
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