On this day, many things:
1148
Louis VII of France lays siege to Damascus during the Second Crusade.
1411
Battle of Harlaw, one of the bloodiest battles in Scotland, takes place.
1487
Citizens of Leeuwarden, Netherlands strike against ban on foreign beer.
1534
French explorer Jacques Cartier plants a cross on the Gaspé Peninsula and takes possession of the territory in the name of Francis I of France.
1567
Mary, Queen of Scots, is forced to abdicate and is replaced by her 1-year-old son James VI.
1715
A Spanish treasure fleet of 10 ships under Admiral Ubilla leaves Havana, Cuba for Spain. Seven days later, 9 of them sink in a storm off the coast of Florida. A few centuries later, treasure is salvaged from these wrecks.
1847
After 17 months of travel, Brigham Young leads 148 Mormon pioneers into Salt Lake Valley, resulting in the establishment of Salt Lake City. Celebrations of this event include the Pioneer Day Utah state holiday and the Days of '47 Parade.
1864
American Civil War: Battle of Kernstown – Confederate General Jubal Anderson Early defeats Union troops led by General George Crook in an effort to keep them out of the Shenandoah Valley.
1901
O. Henry is released from prison in Austin, Texas after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
1911
Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, “the Lost City of the Incas”.
1915
The passenger ship S.S. Eastland capsizes while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew are killed in the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.
1922
The draft of The British Mandate of Palestine was formally confirmed by the Council of the League of Nations; and which came into effect on 26 September 1923. The beginning of the end.
1923
The Treaty of Lausanne, settling the boundaries of modern Turkey, is signed in Switzerland by Greece, Bulgaria and other countries that fought in World War I.
1929
The Kellogg-Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect (it is first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928 by most leading world powers). This is truly precious.
1943
World War II: Operation Gomorrah begins: British and Canadian aeroplanes bomb Hamburg by night, those of the Americans by day. By the end of the operation in November, 9,000 tons of explosives will have killed more than 30,000 people and destroyed 280,000 buildings.
1969
Apollo program: Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean.
1974
Watergate scandal: the United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and they order him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor.
And, finally, 2009
The MV Arctic Sea, reportedly carrying a cargo of timber, is allegedly hijacked in the North Sea by pirates, but much speculation remains as to the actual cargo and events. An astonishing story.
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Thailand launched airstrikes against Cambodian military targets along their long-disputed border, escalating tensions between the Southeast Asian neighbors.
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The Pirates' second-round pick Angel Cervantes commits to UCLA instead of signing an MLB contract.
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A Belgian regulator has upheld a complaint against a ticket inspector for saying “bonjour” in a Flemish-speaking area.
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The general practitioners know less and less about almost everything, and the specialists know more and more about almost nothing.
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The imbalance of Evil
Mr. Kohberger shows we are stalked by the bell curve. But the curve is only an estimate of how typical one thing is among many.
Freud dominated medical classrooms and offices for decades. His teachings saturated the culture. People's lives were impacted, if not changed. Research was conducted, and therapies were applied. People changed their view of their lives, their experiences, their friends, and their families.
Freud dominated medical classrooms and offices for decades. His teachings saturated the culture. People's lives were impacted, if not changed. Research was conducted, and therapies were applied. People changed their view of their lives, their experiences, their friends, and their families.
Lives and actions became indirect and symbolic.
And derivative. Life and growth lost any hope of independence. The best we poor souls could hope for was to make peace with our inevitable tendencies and conflicts. We were all to spend our lives at a table negotiating a treaty with demons.
And then Freud, and it, melted away.
Royal wrote about Freud recently. "Freud, who wrote influential tomes like The Future of an Illusion (i.e., religion) and Civilization and Its Discontents (everyday sadness), was almost blind to the rise of the greatest evil of his time: Nazism. He only survived by fleeing from Vienna to England just before the Anschluss, the annexation of Austria by Germany. His awakening came too late to save his sisters, all in their eighties; one died in Auschwitz, another at Theresienstadt, and two at Treblinka. Even then, the master of the human psyche didn’t really take the full measure of the most obvious, real-world evil in his day. "
And then Freud, and it, melted away.
Royal wrote about Freud recently. "Freud, who wrote influential tomes like The Future of an Illusion (i.e., religion) and Civilization and Its Discontents (everyday sadness), was almost blind to the rise of the greatest evil of his time: Nazism. He only survived by fleeing from Vienna to England just before the Anschluss, the annexation of Austria by Germany. His awakening came too late to save his sisters, all in their eighties; one died in Auschwitz, another at Theresienstadt, and two at Treblinka. Even then, the master of the human psyche didn’t really take the full measure of the most obvious, real-world evil in his day. "
Freud viewed evil as some manifestation of the unconscious mind's repressed instincts. Or something.
After fleeing the continent, apparently, he wrote a letter from the safety of London saying that he expected the Catholic Church would sort out the Nazi problem.
One would have expected more. You would think a guy who imagined the basics of relationships was partly due to infant incestuous homicidal lust could do better. But the creative genius in Freud did not recognize evil when he saw it. Perhaps he felt it represented some subterranean thought, some deep-water prowler in us that needed to be talked out.
What it needed was war, death, and atomic weapons to bring the evil to despair and surrender. That seems to be a bit much for an unresolved psychological imbalance.
After fleeing the continent, apparently, he wrote a letter from the safety of London saying that he expected the Catholic Church would sort out the Nazi problem.
One would have expected more. You would think a guy who imagined the basics of relationships was partly due to infant incestuous homicidal lust could do better. But the creative genius in Freud did not recognize evil when he saw it. Perhaps he felt it represented some subterranean thought, some deep-water prowler in us that needed to be talked out.
What it needed was war, death, and atomic weapons to bring the evil to despair and surrender. That seems to be a bit much for an unresolved psychological imbalance.
And a philosophy that does not recognize evil probably needs rethinking.
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