by John McCumber
On the source of our current ideological helplessness: the Cold War origins of the reactionary rational choice theory. - GWC
RAND, Cold Warriors and the Failure of 'Rational Choice Philosophy' - NYTimes.com: "According to Hegel, history is idea-driven. According to almost everyone else, this is foolish. What can “idea driven” even mean when measured against the passion and anguish of a place like Libya?But Hegel had his reasons. Ideas for him are public, rather than in our heads, and serve to coordinate behavior. They are, in short, pragmatically meaningful words. To say that history is “idea driven” is to say that, like all cooperation, nation building requires a common basic vocabulary."
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