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thx for posting
i wish i attended more of NC's lecture while still at MIT
stirrrrrr 2 years ago
Even Genghis Khan used the florid positive language, his justification for the spread of the Golden Horde across Eurasia: "I will rule them by fixed laws so that rest and happiness shall prevail in the world." & "Heaven has appointed me to rule all the nations, for hitherto there has been no order upon the steppes." The latter one sounds just like the messianic talk of Dubya and Gipper, how old are their speech writers?!
KentAllard 4 years ago
It just shows that "rhetoric are universal, therefore it carries no information, and we should dismiss them." as Prof. Chomsky has said.
Chomskyan 4 years ago
Incidentally, I have very good friends who are Mongolian, and they revere Genghis Khan as a god. They explained to me that he was the one person that united the different clans and gave them a national identity, before he set out on bigger conquests. But the conquests were savage though....
Chomskyan 4 years ago
as savage as the conquest of north America and the extermination of Indian tribes?
stirrrrrr 2 years ago