#scott buchanan

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wandering a waking dream while reaching for the light as the day falls over into night

(I got to show this one to Brittney in person at the Ayreon shows and talk to her for a bit and my little awkward fanboy heart still hasn't recovered.)

[23 august 2022]

(Queueing old art everyday just for the sake of keeping this blog mildly updated).

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SM64 - Watch for Rolling Rocks - 0.5x A Presses (Commentated) (2016) - dir. Scott Buchanan

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Scott Buchanan - What Every Man Should Know: Law

For those who are not absorbed or hypnotized by mass communications there is a great loneliness, and in place of resonance of the political kind there is a wish and demand for ideology, even if the ideology is merely the inverted mirror image of foreign opiums of the people. Some of the lies that we manufacture for ourselves are deliberate imitative lies: the desperate crisis, the cold war, the battle for men's mind, totalitarianism and the omnipotence of the dictator, the conspiracies without and within, encirclements and containments, liberations and retaliations, free enterprise and godless peoples. But these royal lies are not really identifiable and manageable, not only because some of them are justifiable attempts to simplify and communicate the vital and complex issues of the time but also because they rush in to take the place of the lie in our soul, our radical ignorance. As always, some of this ignorance is due to intellectual and moral laziness, but far more of it is incorrigible even by the best and most active minds. We have made a technology and a civilization that we do not and will not soon understand. There never was a time when lifelong universal learning was more needed as the foundation and goal of our collective life.

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Scott Buchanan - Eleven Propositions About Justice, Crime, and Guilt

Government is always imperfect; it never completely succeeds in implementing the citizen's responsibility for justice. It may make too many or too few laws; it may make false laws. It may fail to execute or to adjudicate properly the good laws it has. It may ignore the need for laws as it develops in the life of the community. With a sufficient accumulation of mistakes, the result will be the frustration of the will to justice and the alienation of the consent, and what I have previously called misonomy, the hatred and fear of law and government.

Our own revolution was caused by our hatred and fear of the laws of a mistaken British government; some of the details were listed in the declaration. We have never recovered from the habit of hatred and fear of all government that the occasion engendered. These habits lead us to give bad reasons for our constitutional system of checks and balances; they supply us with specious reasons for favoring one party rather than the other; they lead our academic thinking in the social sciences to theories of power and managership. They lead us to forget political liberty and to prefer individual liberty, and to allow both to eclipse justice, upon which both are founded.

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Scott Buchanan - What Every Man Should Know: Law

We are willing to accept certain combinations of force with reason that obviously go into persuasion, but we think that the proper meaning has been stretched by wit or malice when a cowboy or a gangster calls a six-shooter a persuader. But a holdup man or a cop is presumably a rational animal. When he draws his gun, he is presumably trying to influence truly human behavior. His purpose is intelligible to his victim, and he is hoping that it will be reasonably accepted. He therefore allows time for the victim to argue with and persuade himself. He hopes for willing obedience. In case the persuasion fails, his willingness to shoot is the measure of ratio of force to reason in his rhetoric. The Thucydidean account of the dialogue between the Athenian envoys and the Melian city council spells out in exhaustive detail the rational content of all such encounters, and provides the paradigm for all the situations where might makes right. This is one extreme of the persuasive art. No one will deny that it makes politics.

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Scott Buchanan - Learning Under Law

The Founding Fathers all learned through their tutors what Montesquieu had said, that the principle of the republican form of government is political virtue, and that the source of such virtue is education. But, with the illustrious exceptions of Franklin and Jefferson, none of them devoted his attention and energies to the establishment of formal education. The evidence for their adherence to the principle is in what they built into the constitutions and laws of the new nation. They did their best to give this country the basic and comprehensive legal structure that would make the day-to-day life and work of the citizen and the officials self-educative.