Language & Grammar discussion

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Taking notes
Back to chapter 8 THE COMRADES WHO COULDN’T BROADCAST STRAIGHT

"The tragically inadequate governmental response to the Chernobyl disaster flowed inevitably from the central characteristic of all communist regimes: the instinctual control of information."

Hayek on the Use of Knowledge in Society
https://archive.org/details/hayek
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-gi2_1V...

Norbert Wiener
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norbert...
He gave the new field of study a name: cybernetics, the theory of information and control in human and animal systems.

Put into plain English, in a world where technological progress and military security depend on constant scientific advance, secrecy, far from maintaining national security, actually erodes it by preventing the intellectual cross-fertilization that characterizes open societies.


Alexander Ivanovich Herzen (Russian
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexand...
was a Russian writer and thinker known as the "father of Russian socialism" and one of the main fathers of agrarian populism (being an ideological ancestor of the Narodniki, Socialist-Revolutionaries, Trudoviks and the agrarian American Populist Party). With his writings, many composed while exiled in London, he attempted to influence the situation in Russia, contributing to a political climate that led to the emancipation of the serfs in 1861. He published the important social novel Who is to Blame? (1845–46). His autobiography, My Past and Thoughts (written 1852–1870),[1] is often considered one of the best examples of that genre in Russian literature.

Link to our next buddy read is in message 151.

Cynda Reads Again wrote: "Link to our next buddy read is in message 151."

Thank you!

See you there!

This is the rhetoric you get in the communist gov't press:

"But on July 23, 2011, hundreds of millions of people around the world, particularly in China, badly wanted to know precisely what happened when a lightning-induced high-speed train collision in Zhejiang Province tossed passenger cars off a viaduct and killed dozens."

"An initial government press release read, “China’s high-speed train is advanced and qualified. We have confidence in it.” Governmental officials directed the press to focus on the human tragedy, and to stay away from the cause: “Do not question. Do not elaborate. Do not associate.”

"Alas, China’s Twitter-like service, Sina Weibo, which has over three hundred million users, shredded the government spin. Just minutes after the accident, a survivor tweeted for help, and the message got forwarded 112,000 times in a matter of hours."

"Twitter had become the modern Argus—all-seeing, all-knowing, unblinking, and ever-present.

How did this play out in Covid?

Cynda Reads Again wrote: "Cosmic, I could definitely use help in reading my Chaucer study. I already have set my reading plans for 2024. For me to do justice to Chaucer, I will have to push back study to 2025.

On my list:..."

I am downloading samples on Kindle and will make a collection for them. One book that seems to have gotten high reviews is this one. Chaucer: A European Life.

I would like to read this as a biography of Chaucer.

Cynda Reads Again wrote: "We can read The Divine Comedy also in 2025.

I want to read all three parts."

I do too. I read it one year...I have notes that I took on Goodreads. But it doesn't feel like a book I have had a relationship with.

Masters of the Word: How Media Shaped History

One thing that I really enjoyed reading about what how important poets are to the Russian Culture. I feel like we have lost that. I wanted to just hang around that "cafe" (not real just a figure of speech) and listen to more about what those people felt about poetry.

Made me want to read some of English poetry as well as Russian poetry.

Thank you for the information Cosmic. I'm not having a good day. I will rest, listen to audiobook, and sleep. I will feel better later and will look at what you have posted here.

I hope you get felling better! I just finished the book and note taking. Will be ready to start The Rhetoric of Mao Zedong: Transforming China and Its People tomorrow!