“Changing the words of Naram-Sin, the living god, is treason, because he is the king. But changing the words of Gudea, simple governor of Lagaš, is unjust, because he made things work right.” — Wikipedia, in fine lapidary form.
Jason Kuznicki
Jason Kuznicki is a research fellow at the Cato Institute and contributor of Cato Unbound. He's on twitter as JasonKuznicki. His interests include political theory and history.
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on Open Mic for the week of 4/15/2024According to Mr. Berliner, he kept trying to get management to do what he wanted. They didn't. Thus…
on Open Mic for the week of 4/15/2024"Pitched a tantrum," of course, being the third-ideology conjugation of "spoke truth to power." on Open Mic for the week of 4/15/2024The Essay.
on Open Mic for the week of 4/15/2024Soon to be the journalism dept. chair at the University of Austin.
on Open Mic for the week of 4/15/2024Was the essay the tantrum or is quitting after getting five days unpaid leave the tantrum? on Open Mic for the week of 4/15/2024Given his repeated statements about trying to raise this inside the house and being ignored, I read… on Open Mic for the week of 4/15/2024The purpose of a system is what it does (POSIWID).
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OK, that does it. I’ve been trying to figure this out all day, and I give. Can you please explain to me what on earth this means?Report
I don’t fully understand it myself.
I half-wrote a stemwinder about how we justify claims of political authority, but it never really went anywhere. And the most marvelous thing about these two sentences is that they aren’t Sumerian at all. They’re Wikipedian, and unsourced, and I can’t even readily tell where they came from. So what kind of authority is that?Report
It reads to me like a paraphrase of Gudea’s statement:
“since the earliest days, since the seed sprouted forth, no one was (ever) supposed to alter the utterance of a ruler of Lagaš who, after building the Eninnu for my lord Ningirsu, made things function as they should”
and an explanation of how if differs from the strictures issued by earlier kings.Report
Who recognizes the name ” Lagaš”? (I’d expect Jason might.)Report