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For What It’s Worth VI

fensterm - March 19, 2007 @ 9:48 am · Sand, oil, blood, and tears.

There was something happening here:

Rally by A.N.S.W.E.R. marching to the Pentagon.

Crossing the Bridge to the Pentagon Saturday

A demonstration sponsored by A.N.S.W.E.R. marched to the Pentagon. [An AP story through CNN. A slightly different AP story through Yahoo.] Some of them are what Professor Roberto would call necessitarians. Some would call them the OLD Necessitarians.

Next weekend will probably be led by The New Necessitarians. Or at least, the New Necessitarians will be there in the hope that Their Time is at Hand. My concern is whether any form of Necessitarian is new enough. God said to Abraham, “Kill me a son.” Is there a law of nature that justifies a teleological suspension of the ethical. “Where do You want that killing done?” I have a picture of someone who does. You won’t like it. On the other hand, the popular example among our Divinitarians is this guy. This is not an ABSOLUTE teleological suspension of the ethical – The imagined Equations of Motion of History justifying absolutely anything. Or have I punctured logic leaving it like a flaccid balloon.

Something’s Happening on Wall Street!

Demonstrators outside the New York Stock exchange trying to close it down. [Democracy Now! had a live interview from Wall Street. Streams* are available. Web update to come.] Also the Federal Reserve even as I type.

And for a reprise of the whole song with video.

*10:00 AM EDT/9:00 AM Central from KPFT Houston.

11:00 AM EDT/8:00 AM PDT from KZFR Sacramento.