8 thoughts on “Tucson is Celebrating Cesar Chavez Day Today.”
I wish what Chavez said were true. I'd like it to be true. But "history," to the extent it's a social science, doesn't judge at all: it just describes and analyzes. Most the of the world's regimes until about 1840 or so countenanced slavery in one sense or another. Socrates, Plato and Aristotle were free to think profound thoughts about the good for man because the Athenians had slaves in the mines, digging out silver.
Yeah, I don't know if C.C. was actually making a comment about the nature of historical scholarship as much as using some rhetoric to scold those running the institutions .
No, you're right. Picking that quote, I thought, "'wow, is he gonna be wrong about that! ", but hanging around here with all you good people is putting a little lid on my bad attitude, at least publicly; so I thought a little inspirational b.s. wouldn't be too painful.
I wish what Chavez said were true. I'd like it to be true. But "history," to the extent it's a social science, doesn't judge at all: it just describes and analyzes. Most the of the world's regimes until about 1840 or so countenanced slavery in one sense or another. Socrates, Plato and Aristotle were free to think profound thoughts about the good for man because the Athenians had slaves in the mines, digging out silver.
Funny comment, huh? Please clap.
Yeah, I don't know if C.C. was actually making a comment about the nature of historical scholarship as much as using some rhetoric to scold those running the institutions .
You're right. I tend to go for the quibble rather than the point.
No, you're right. Picking that quote, I thought, "'wow, is he gonna be wrong about that! ", but hanging around here with all you good people is putting a little lid on my bad attitude, at least publicly; so I thought a little inspirational b.s. wouldn't be too painful.
I smell [ grapes ]
Wait, Cesar Chavez day is a holiday chin Tucson? How come I didn't get the day off? For that matter, I didn't get yesterday off either…
I didn't actually remember when it was ; 31st technically I guess. Dern local g'umint
"Grandpa, I still don't understand how you could eat meat, keep apes in zoos, or let anyone slaughter sea mammals."