GR translation: iron roadstead

Mark Kohut mark.kohut at gmail.com
Tue Jun 28 10:26:23 UTC 2022


The depth and coherence of P's vision. Iron. Part of a major phrase of
Weber's deep understanding. Iron cage....and from GR.

"Above him lift girders as old as an iron queen"----page 1.......Iron
headboard, iron roadstead a hundred pages later......

In sociology, the iron cage is a concept introduced by Max Weber to
describe the increased rationalization inherent in social life,
particularly in Western capitalist societies. The "iron cage" thus traps
individuals in systems based purely on teleological efficiency, rational
calculation and control.

On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 1:02 AM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Iron would be the metal, but what is the iron roadstead?  It must be the
> name of a bay or port.
>
> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadstead
>
> A *roadstead* (or roads – the earlier form)[a]
> <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadstead#cite_note-3> is a body of water
> sheltered from rip currents <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rip_current>,
> spring tides, or ocean swell where ships
> <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship> can lie reasonably safely at anchor
> <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchor> without dragging or snatching.[3]
> <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadstead#cite_note-TM5360-4>[4]
> <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadstead#cite_note-5> It can be open or
> natural, usually estuary <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estuary>-based,
> or may be created artificially.
>
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 10:44 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > V99.36-38, P101.32-35    . . . and he came ashore in a high-prowed wooden
> > boat that had 20 years earlier brought blue-trousered troops in from the
> > iron roadstead to crush the great Herero Rising.
> >
> > What does the word "iron" indicate here?
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