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letsdothis2 ago

Just a few notes here on the background of Dr. M Maccoby:

http://management4best.blogspot.com/2010/03/biography-of-michael-maccoby.html

He received a BA (magna cum laude) at Harvard in 1954 where he was president of the Crimson. He then studied philosophy with Stuart Hampshire and Bernard Williams at New College, Oxford on a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship.

Stuart Hampshire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Hampshire

In 1965–6, he was selected by the UK government to conduct a review of the effectiveness of GCHQ.

Woodrow Wilson - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson

Knock, Thomas J. To End All Wars: Woodrow Wilson and the Quest for a New World Order (1995)

Wilson and Theosophy : The Scorpion and the Frog: A Natural Conspiracy

Theosophy and the Arts

Shiben Banerji (School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA), Woodrow Wilson s Great Mistake: Self-Determination and the Theosophical Concept of Peace In 1944, an American architect named Marion Mahony wrote an essay imagining a post-war world in which a sense of responsibility to the other would bind different races, nationalities, and species together. At the time of the essay s drafting, Mahony who in 1898 became the first woman to be licensed as an architect in the United States had just completed laying out the site plan for a pacifist commune in New Hampshire. Called the World Fellowship Center, this place gathered Theosophists and members of other heterodox movements in order to convert the war effort into a lasting global peace.

Mahony s 1944 essay did not make any direct reference to the physical layout of the World Fellowship Center, but it shared the Center's conceptual outlook and conviction that hostile feelings could be converted into their opposite. Specifically, Mahony s essay distilled the disparate cries of American isolationism and anti-colonial nationalism into an opportunity to create a borderless, worldwide economic community that shared a single international currency. This paper interrogates the practice of condensing discontinuous claims into a constitutive moment as a literary habit one that drew on the circulation, excerpting, and reprinting of news stories on imperial policy and anti-imperial struggles across the Anglophone world. Crucially, the abstract entity produced by this habit was neither the colonial state nor its nationalist alter ego. Instead, it was a globalizing mechanism that lacked attachment to territory and demos. By examining the Theosophical Society s transnational inquiry into the League of Nations and Woodrow Wilson s principle of national self-determination, this paper uncovers an internal dispute within modern occultism over the precise character of the mechanism needed to guarantee global peace. Prominent exponents of occult science like J.J. van der Leeuw attributed the failure of the League of Nations to its lack of a superstate police force, whereas others like Marion Mahony called for the formation of supranational, non-governmental organization.

letsdothis2 ago

Need to get to his time in Mexico.