Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...consensus behind George Bush's policy in the gulf? A meat-grinder war of attrition, strewed with melting bodies in charred tanks? A female prisoner of war paraded on videotape? A bombed-out Statue of Liberty, sinking in tiny copper pieces to the bottom of New York harbor? Conventional wisdom holds that if a ground war begins and the body bags start piling up, backing for the war will dissolve. This is not just the expert condescension that assumes Americans will sustain a war only as long as it mimics a video game. The judgment is based on what happened...
...turned only against the wicked, to hold them in check and keep them at peace, and to protect and save the righteous." In practice, however, most clergy in wartime preached the righteousness of their own nations' cause. Only after the fact did scholars contemplate the moral wisdom of various wars, as occurred in America following the Spanish-American War and World War I. Even World War II, despite the evils of Nazism, was deemed "just" only after the U.S. became involved...
Clearly, this isn't the traditional approach to dispensing wisdom about the subtle workings of nature. But Layzer says he is frustrated with such conventional methods, which he says encourage a rather narrow perception of science...
...pacifist project, as far as I am concerned, is no longer tenable. No more Tolstoy or King (too Christian, too manly), no more Gandhi (too resolute), no more strong stand against over-whelming force. "The wisdom of nonviolence" has been vanquished in its pitched battle with the forces of logic, and my eyes sting when I read Mark A. Gragg '91 say to Crimson reporters, "Once we're committed, we're committed...
Hsun-ching is a worthy young man who, after his mother is killed, is raised by a patient Buddhist monk. The old monk's only dream is to go to San Francisco and find the Laughing Sutra, which he believes will unlock the secrets of wisdom. Of course he is too frail for such a quest, and of course Hsun-ching undertakes it in his behalf, ignorant though he is of travel bans in China, not to mention restrictions on entering...