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"THE TRANSFER OF INTEREST
How is Public Opinion crystalized
People do different things for different reasons
Vote for one party for different, sometimes opposing reasons
Concept of "oversoul"
Hughes' first speech after accepting Republican nomination
Method of securing homogeneous vote from heterogeneous opinion
Agreement -> detail
Disagreement -> vague
Lip service to all sides
Idea and response both second hand" — Dec 23, 2025 12:03AM
"THE TRANSFER OF INTEREST
How is Public Opinion crystalized
People do different things for different reasons
Vote for one party for different, sometimes opposing reasons
Concept of "oversoul"
Hughes' first speech after accepting Republican nomination
Method of securing homogeneous vote from heterogeneous opinion
Agreement -> detail
Disagreement -> vague
Lip service to all sides
Idea and response both second hand" — Dec 23, 2025 12:03AM
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"Summary
For families of theories of Power
Two theories of sovereignty - justify Power by right, by God or by the people, center of command. Nominalist, allergic to absorption of man. Divine Right implies immutable law, others make law mutable.
Organic theories - justify Power by its end, moral and material cohesion of society, a zone of light or an organ
Theories start hostile to Power and end up helping it." — Mar 28, 2024 12:30AM
"Summary
For families of theories of Power
Two theories of sovereignty - justify Power by right, by God or by the people, center of command. Nominalist, allergic to absorption of man. Divine Right implies immutable law, others make law mutable.
Organic theories - justify Power by its end, moral and material cohesion of society, a zone of light or an organ
Theories start hostile to Power and end up helping it." — Mar 28, 2024 12:30AM
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"Why did Truman reject an approach many thought was likely to end the war?
Imperial cult - unconditional surrender directly threatened the emperor
Origins of unconditional surrender terminology - Casablanca 1943
Surrender needs imperial sanction
Truman gives more carefully worded speech on May 8
Navy Captain Ellis Zacharias - presidential statement explaining unconditional surrender - Forrestal and Leahy approve." — Jul 31, 2023 06:19AM
"Why did Truman reject an approach many thought was likely to end the war?
Imperial cult - unconditional surrender directly threatened the emperor
Origins of unconditional surrender terminology - Casablanca 1943
Surrender needs imperial sanction
Truman gives more carefully worded speech on May 8
Navy Captain Ellis Zacharias - presidential statement explaining unconditional surrender - Forrestal and Leahy approve." — Jul 31, 2023 06:19AM
“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
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“Power changes its appearance but not its reality.”
― On Power: The Natural History of Its Growth
― On Power: The Natural History of Its Growth
“We are ending where the savages began. We have found again the lost arts of starving non-combatants, burning hovels, and leading away the vanquished into slavery. Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: we are our own Huns.”
― On Power: The Natural History of Its Growth
― On Power: The Natural History of Its Growth
“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”
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“Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces.”
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