Samuel P. Huntington

Wed, 01/07/2009 - 12:07pm

My tribute to the late Samuel P. Huntington is up here.

An earlier tribute to Sam, and to another recently departed friend, can be found here.

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plz

by nabi2305 on Wed, 01/07/2009 - 5:54pm

I need to send you an e-mail, mr walt. would you plz tell me your e-mail.
nabi2305@gmail.com

its called a website

by Poet on Wed, 01/07/2009 - 9:04pm

harvard.edu -> directories

thanks

by Poet on Wed, 01/07/2009 - 9:03pm

Disagreed with H a lot.

But may G-D bless him.

S.H. assumes there are

by Grand Sen-or on Thu, 01/08/2009 - 4:22pm

S.Huntington assumes there are civilisations out there to clash. One can equally assume that there are no civilisation(s), but there is a degeneration of civilisations to monotony, to singularity. The characteristic of the degeneration is prescribed via prototype constitutions of monotonous conglomerate of states.
The premises of such a constitution are:
One nation,
One land,
One law,
One culture,
One leadership.
Doesn't that sound us like:
Ein Land
Ein Volk
Ein Fuerer
the one structure at least half of the world were determined to eliminate?!
and guess what;-> we ended up with the same monolithic structure. I don't think it is fair to call this civilisation anymore. We are kind of grown up human beings from this monotony. We are after creating harmony out of multiplicity to create the new civilisation.
What I am trying to say here is S.Huntington's assumption of "at presentm there exists more than one civilisation" is false, therefore all of his arguments based on this false assumption is nonsense.

Grand Sen~or

BTW, Stephen, realist is the one who before adjusts the sail, asks the question : Why this wind blows that way?
Trying to understand the reality, rather than jumping in to save the phenomena. Imagine this wind developing to a hurricane;->

10 44 am

by Poet on Thu, 01/08/2009 - 10:01am

the earliest professor walt has posted is 10 44 am

i guess that means i should stop coming to this website at 7 am and waiting it out a few hours

perhaps you should post your class schedule for the semester so we know when you WON'T be posting