My apologies to anybody who is having trouble posting comments at Albion's Seedlings -- our new Turing filters have less-then-Turing-like commonsense. There are great comments both here and at Chicago Boyz where it is cross-posted, and I will shortly post at Seedlings a discussion of several of them, Malaclypse's and Carl Hollywood's in particular.
Very briefly, the Anglosphere tradition is both inadvertetly emergent and the product of individual innovation. That is to say, its longstanding characteristics of individualism and market orientation have very deep and particular roots in Anglosphere history, but the intellectual awareness of these characteristics and the socio-political institutions that we now enjoy and that are shaped around those characteristics owe much to individual genius at particular points of its history.
The ideal of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" is indeed revolutionary. But the revolution from which it emerged was the English revolution of 1688. This was so well known in 1776 that nobody then needed to have it spelled out -- Jefferson was "sampling" Locke, Milton and Sydney in the Declaration copiously. An analysis of British pamphlets written in response to the Declaration of Independence has shown that hardly any of the authors disputed the principles of the Declaration; most just allowed that it was standard Whig boilerplate. They tended to save their disagreement for Jefferson's particulars as to why America could consider its contract with the crown voided.
Neal Stephenson's work is of great interest to Anglospherists, particularly the Baroque Cycle. And the first use of "anglosphere" that I can find was in Stephenson's The Diamond Age, a novel that also contained a character named (coincidentally, I'm sure) "Carl Hollywood".
Posted by James C. Bennett at November 12, 2005 11:34 PMI am looking forward to that post. Particularly since I share Glenn Reynolds view that Neal Stephenson is a significant author beyond his entertainment value. Having watched, over the years, as various online communities have arisen; particularly in gaming; I was immediately struck by the voluntary aspects of the "New Victorians" in The Diamond Age.
In the sense that a "culture" is also a set of shared values; witness the Open Source "culture", "The Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" in the words of one reviewer, ...is not merely a book, but a vastly complex multimedia device designed to evolve itself in response to its user. That would initially serve as a preliminary definition of the the Anglospheric Network.
Posted by: M.H. Wood at November 13, 2005 11:20 AMGentlemen:
I, too, look forward to this post. I'm so into Stephenson's book, sometimes I compare the process of gaining Anglospheric awareness to taking the Neo-Victorian Oath.
Mr. Bennett, I must confess my choice of name is less coincidental than George Harrison’s accidental borrowing from the Chiffons when he wrote “My Sweet Lord.”
Posted by: Carl Hollywood at November 13, 2005 04:44 PMA Proclamation, by The King, for Suppressing Rebellion and Sedition
King George III
August 23, 1775
George R.
Whereas many of our subjects in divers parts of our Colonies and Plantations in North America, misled by dangerous and ill designing men, and forgetting the allegiance which they owe to the power that has protected and supported them; after various disorderly acts committed in disturbance of the publick peace, to the obstruction of lawful commerce, and to the oppression of our loyal subjects carrying on the same; have at length proceeded to open and avowed rebellion, by arraying themselves in a hostile manner, to withstand the execution of the law, and traitorously preparing, ordering and levying war against us: And whereas, there is reason to apprehend that such rebellion hath been much promoted and encouraged by the traitorous correspondence, counsels and comfort of divers wicked and desperate persons within this Realm: To the end therefore, that none of our subjects may neglect or violate their duty through ignorance thereof, or through any doubt of the protection which the law will afford to their loyalty and zeal, we have thought fit, by and with the advice of our Privy Council, to issue our Royal Proclamation, hereby declaring, that not only all our Officers, civil and military, are obliged to exert their utmost endeavours to suppress such rebellion, and to bring the traitors to justice, but that all our subjects of this Realm, and the dominions thereunto belonging, are bound by law to be aiding and assisting in the suppression of such rebellion, and to disclose and make known all traitorous conspiracies and attempts against us, our crown and dignity; and we do accordingly strictly charge and command all our Officers, as well civil as military, and all others our obedient and loyal subjects, to use their utmost endeavours to withstand and suppress such rebellion, and to disclose and make known all treasons and traitorous conspiracies which they shall know to be against us, our crown and dignity; and for that purpose, that they transmit to one of our principal Secretaries of State, or other proper officer, due and full information of all persons who shall be found carrying on correspondence with, or in any manner or degree aiding or abetting the persons now in open arms and rebellion against our Government, within any of our Colonies and Plantations in North America, in order to bring to condign punishment the authors, perpetrators, and abetters of such traitorous designs.
Given at our Court at St. James’s the twenty-third day of August, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five, in the fifteenth year of our reign.
GOD save the KING."
The great thing about historical documents is that they typically speak for themselves. As a rule, one should not establish a zero-sum basis for a conflict and then complain when the conflict does not end in ones favor.
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