Tom, thank you so much for the compliment! And yeah, I am adding your song to my playlist— one could do a whole Dylan hour, right? Thank you for drawing me to your essays, I’ll be back!
Thomas, thanks for including the Bob Dylan masterpiece 'It's Alright, Ma' from 'Bringing It All Back Home' album which is nearly as good as 'Highway 61 Revisited' Dylan's very best! And please, include another masterpiece by Dylan 'Blood on the Tracks' which I was able a one-time to perform cover to cover, but that was many, many years ago!
Tom, this is really a remarkable post for these dark, ominous days.
About the exit plans for the Trump cabinet: These members took an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States, not to be loyal to the Blasphemer in Chief instead. They broke their vows. Period.
Kurt Gödel before his citizen induction hearing was quite distressed about the presence of a flaw in the Constitution that could establish a dictator. He appears correct. But while the Constitution may allow for a dictator to emerge, it does not ordain one. The appeasing Cabinet must walk the political plank to obscurity.
The mathematician and philosopher Kurt Gödel reportedly discovered a deep logical contradiction in the US Constitution. What was it? In this paper, the author revisits the story of Gödel’s discovery and identifies one particular “design defect” in the Constitution that qualifies as a “Gödelian” design defect. In summary, Gödel’s loophole is that the amendment procedures set forth in Article V self-apply to the constitutional statements in Article V themselves, including the entrenchment clauses in Article V. Furthermore, not only may Article V itself be amended, but it may also be amended in a downward direction (i.e., through an “anti-entrenchment” amendment making it easier to amend the Constitution). Lastly, the Gödelian problem of self-amendment or anti-entrenchment is unsolvable.
Thomas, Gödel got pushed way up the line for citizenship by a few colleagues at the Institute for Advanced Study. They got some heavy weight political assistance to do so. A federal judge handled the interview in his chambers which is very unusual.
Kurt had worriedly mentioned this constitutional 'flaw' to his buddies and they in turn told him in explicit terms to not mention it to the judge. They feared that the judge would consider him a crank and deny his citizenship application.
I have read several accounts of this but none detailed explicitly the flaw. That is a research project for examining papers of Gödel and his IAS cohorts to see if anyone wrote down what was the flaw.
Fossil Capitalism and Petro-militarism both win as always…Fxck NATO and Israel is not even a real country.
Tom, thank you so much for the compliment! And yeah, I am adding your song to my playlist— one could do a whole Dylan hour, right? Thank you for drawing me to your essays, I’ll be back!
My pleasure, Susie.
Thomas, thanks for including the Bob Dylan masterpiece 'It's Alright, Ma' from 'Bringing It All Back Home' album which is nearly as good as 'Highway 61 Revisited' Dylan's very best! And please, include another masterpiece by Dylan 'Blood on the Tracks' which I was able a one-time to perform cover to cover, but that was many, many years ago!
Mark,I'll check it out. Dylan through 'Blood on the Tracks' is prime indeed.
Tom, this is really a remarkable post for these dark, ominous days.
About the exit plans for the Trump cabinet: These members took an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States, not to be loyal to the Blasphemer in Chief instead. They broke their vows. Period.
Kurt Gödel before his citizen induction hearing was quite distressed about the presence of a flaw in the Constitution that could establish a dictator. He appears correct. But while the Constitution may allow for a dictator to emerge, it does not ordain one. The appeasing Cabinet must walk the political plank to obscurity.
Gödel's constitutional loophole?
Abstract
The mathematician and philosopher Kurt Gödel reportedly discovered a deep logical contradiction in the US Constitution. What was it? In this paper, the author revisits the story of Gödel’s discovery and identifies one particular “design defect” in the Constitution that qualifies as a “Gödelian” design defect. In summary, Gödel’s loophole is that the amendment procedures set forth in Article V self-apply to the constitutional statements in Article V themselves, including the entrenchment clauses in Article V. Furthermore, not only may Article V itself be amended, but it may also be amended in a downward direction (i.e., through an “anti-entrenchment” amendment making it easier to amend the Constitution). Lastly, the Gödelian problem of self-amendment or anti-entrenchment is unsolvable.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2010183
Thanks, SoS. More on Kurt Gödel?
Thomas
Thomas, Gödel got pushed way up the line for citizenship by a few colleagues at the Institute for Advanced Study. They got some heavy weight political assistance to do so. A federal judge handled the interview in his chambers which is very unusual.
Kurt had worriedly mentioned this constitutional 'flaw' to his buddies and they in turn told him in explicit terms to not mention it to the judge. They feared that the judge would consider him a crank and deny his citizenship application.
I have read several accounts of this but none detailed explicitly the flaw. That is a research project for examining papers of Gödel and his IAS cohorts to see if anyone wrote down what was the flaw.