MW notes on topics for discussion / breakfast conversation (crucial)
Recorded at Rencontres, Fougeres (2005), featuring Michael Wright, Others. From the Michael Wright Collection, held by the Archive Trust for Research in Mathematical Sciences & Philosophy.
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0:00 There's a lot of information that can't be written in English, but there's a lot of information that can't be written in Spanish, but there's a lot of information that can't be written in English, but there's a lot of information that can't be written in Spanish, but there's a lot of information that can't be written in English, but there's a lot of information that can't be written in Spanish, but there's a lot of information that can't be written in English, but there's a lot of information that can't be written in Spanish, but there's a lot of information that can't be written in English, but there's a lot of information that can't be written in Spanish, but there's a lot of information that can't be written in English, but there's a lot of information that can't be written in Spanish, but there's a lot of information that can't be written in English, but there's a lot of information that can't be written in Spanish, but there's a lot of information that can't be written in English I knew that, but I didn't put it together, and of course all these homological things depend very much on the question of how you decode them. More than, I would say, that and the light extension. Yeah, but they don't. The light extension and the analysts, yeah. In fact, as I was saying, one of the great number of these proposes is... Every object in the bedding is a contractible object. So if you had a map into it and then composed it within the bedding, you'd have a contractible codomain. And you'd say, oh, it's just a codomain. It's not fixed. It's not definite. Everything is trivial. I think the other insight is that people are contractible. Well, yes, I think so, yes, which is the sort of, which is, of course, yeah, the kind of the
2:30 Everything, everything all of a sudden is a ball of gold and I'm not really using this. Ignoring all the real world, the Asian Federation or anything else. Saying everything is decided by, you know, extension of what is abstract property. Less than ten years before the first world war, less than ten years before the revolution, what kind of training was needed to become a chief propagandist, convincing, you know, hundreds of thousands of people. I wish I could think of the name of the guy, I mean, it's a long guy, a guy named Lou, Lou Joy. Lou Joy may be, you know, a nation over there. I'd like to, although I don't see Ray Chomsky very highly, I do think this particular book about the propaganda they're able to get America into the First World War, the guy who coined the phrase, the bewildered heart. I'm trying to think who he was, because he was the man that Wilson put in charge of the oligarchic, the sop and the lark, and the kettle, except he was an American. And he was actually explicit, that was his mission. Wilson, he was always quite explicit. There's so many kind of coded stuff about, you know, generally enlightening people about the state of foreign policy, and then there's American security concerns, and it wasn't, of course, a dress-up in nebulous, woozy terms. It was told quite specifically. It's absolutely necessary to prepare American opinion for war. There are a series of ways to oppose anybody's position of reading about the various systems that are going to war in Europe.
5:00 Once we've done a little thing like Mexico out of the way, like the story of the progressive government in Mexico and the story of the U.S. Capitol in Europe. A very strong position there, because of course before, I think actually that was the reason that they delayed going into the European war. They didn't go in in 1950 after the Lusitania. It was because they wanted to. They were busy getting rid of Fiat and imposing the dictatorship in Mexico. Oh yeah, that's true. That's right, yes, and as a matter of fact, of course, one of the pretexts was, because it wasn't the only pretext, and one pretext was the German summary warfare campaign, but one of the pretexts, of course, was a German interference in Mexico, which obviously is the next sphere of American interest. So I'm glad that you're going to be interfering with our... You know, I'll back you off. I mean, you know, states of influence is actually what led to that a lot of things. It goes in the high state of capitalism. The Monroe Doctrine should be applied in order to... Well, that's just my understanding. He didn't have to, you know, make you go to Europe. Yeah. You know, it's quite irrespective of the obvious interest that the American really brought in the European world, but Churchill said something many, many years later which he then subsequently suppressed. He went out of his way to... There's many people who accuse some of the so-called Sovietologists that Stalin had some of his early writings suppressed after he became... The secretary of the party, the leader, because they contained material he didn't want to have. I don't believe it, but they'd display his name. They sort of assign agents to the British Museum to kind of take the books out and make a... ...teach in the United States in 1929 or 1930. It was either just before or just after the Wall Street crash. It was one of the museums where he did lectures. But he was already a major publicist, a major British publicist.
7:30 And of course, he always made his money because he had a very high spend of life staff, so he used to do these big lectures and stuff like this. And in one big public meeting in Chicago in 1930, he said, the same thing he printed in most kind of corrective left journals and lectures, except for the 1930s, And the allies before still have a monarchy in Germany, and we still have a monarchy in Russia, we wouldn't have had these terrible, because we wouldn't have had to threaten these crazy people in Germany and make a second war. We would have had peace with the chastened Hohenzollern, I think was the phrase he used, like the people who advised Bush... And so on and so forth. Thank you for your attention. Thank you for your attention.
10:00 If you have any kind of reasonable salary, get a promotion. It happened my time. But he told me that he owned his salary. He made the story. Calculated with John Maynard. We had a meeting on ramifications of catchment theory in two or three days. That's where we went, to the History of Science Museum. And we went off to the Academy. Thank you for your attention.
12:30 Thank you very much for your time, and I look forward to seeing you again in the next lecture. Thank you for your attention.
15:00 We'll talk a bit more about Witten, Connes, Hawking, Witten, Hawking, Witten, Hawking, Witten, Hawking, Witten, Hawking, Witten, Hawking, Witten, Hawking, Witten, Hawking, Witten, Hawking, Witten, There's a lot of stuff in terms of injectors and injectors.
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