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Interesting one.
Still entirely off the topic of being employed in contemporary journalism...but, you know, you have to do SOMETHING while you sit around there between ogling white chicks.
If that is in fact what De Landa (interesting name, for a Mexican) says, he's completely full of shit. Typically Mexican, though, of a certain type, in always having the military in the front of his mind, and not, say, production or innovation. The Industrial Revolution was one primarily of POWER, as in coal turned into steam. Mexico has power too, in oil, but hasn't thought of much interesting to do with it except fund an oligarchy.
De landa is quite common in Mexico, especially amongst the so-called elites.
It can be from two sources, one of course is from Vasque, specifically from Alava. A lot of non Vasque Spaniards who came to Mexico and Chile where from there so the Castillian( de) would apply as So and so de (from) Landa.
Another possibility of the origin could be be from the border town of Matamoros, Mexico which use to have the name Lan-há when it was a town founded by purepecha ( tarrascan) Indians.
¿Entiende señor Fnarf?
SeMe, I didn't know all that; I only know of the one De Landa, Diego, the priest who burned every single one of the Mayan books, except for the four he missed. One of the greatest cultural terrorists of all time.
makes me wonder. is "capitalism" confined to economics? could it be. an entire mental, emotional and spiritual state?
capitalism is not only fighting to bring heaven to closer, it is the selfishness preventing us from rising to it ourselves.
I think the bias against Iberian history (ie. acknowledging the Spanish monarchy as an entity that walked and talked like a corporation in the 15th c.) rears its ugly head here. But DeLanda's discovery of this early incidence of mechanization is pretty cool.
What's with the pic? Does the Department of Defense have a circus cannon to shoot people into heaven now?
The picture is of an unfortunate bit of sculpture installed on the lawn of the otherwise fairly attractive Cut at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. The sculpture is actually pretty cool, but it's very badly placed. It also seems a little arrogant because it includes some life size people sculptures at the bottom, looking up to admire it.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/s_421750.html
Charles,
Have you read the Dissolution of Nicholas Dee? I think the origin of insurance is located somewhere around that time in the novel, in that country, unless I'm wrong.
Charles, Jon Borofsky just stole your car.
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