[R-G] Re: Rick Wilhelm on John Kerry

[Debashish Mukherjee]

CJ writes:

'The US was neither French nor parliamentary.'

'The Come-Outters however wielded a moral force I don't find in their modern
imitators.'

'Real power is protean...'

'As for discovering the truth, as Einstein said "In the realm of the seekers
after truth there is no human authority. Whoever attempts to play the
magistrate there founders on the laughter of the gods."'

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Right, "The US was neither French nor parliamentary." Like power, the
application of democracy is protean too. But no matter what form it takes-
French, parliamentary, or otherwise- it remains the façade of political
power (not power in general) of a particular class vested in and mediated
through a singular apparatus- the state.

"The Come-Outters however wielded a moral force I don't find in their modern
imitators." - No dispute there. I just wanted to know who in the US "their
modern imitators" are.

"In the realm of the seekers after truth there is no human authority.
Whoever attempts to play the magistrate there founders on the laughter of
the gods." - A classic quote. However, "the laughter of the gods" is not
directed at "the seekers after truth" (Einstein himself was one); only at
anyone who "attempts to play the magistrate" and impose "authority".

Debashish