sun in aquarius (larks' tongues in aspic)

jewels of thought by pharoah sanders recorded this day in 1969. 

sun in aquarius (horsemouth would argue) is lifted (at least at the layer of texture) to make king crimson's larks' tongues in aspic.

over on substack reheated horsemouth blogposts (from back when he was good and some new stuff). 

here (the sunday) a rainy day with little to recommend it. 

ok horsemouth is about to go for the world this weekend news (1pm).  robbery at the louvre. pressure on venezuela.

in the evening horsemouth watched hopscotch (walter matthau the super competent, this time as disgruntled CIA agent doing a spycatcher). before that he watched john gray being interviewed on why he wasn't a post-liberal. 

now horsemouth has a number of john gray's round here (false dawn, straw dogs, black mass etc. none of which he has read properly). now the basic argument of all of them is a kind of derridean quibbling - for example in false dawn  there was never actually existing free trade (say) (or if there was it only existed for a brief period and had to be maintained with force) so attempts to grow this into an ideology are doomed to failure (or at least the policies that might propose are doomed to failure). 

broadly for john gray the center cannot hold...  apply this technique to all the shibboleths of liberal debate as seems fit. 

ok horsemouth has found his copies of black mass and false dawn, straw dogs remains elusive in the stacks (maybe he never owned it). 

and now gray has lived long enough to be able to apply them to post-liberal thought (and in particular that of  alasdair chalmers macintyre and in particular his after virtue)  this is becoming a thing as the liberal political project enters into a (possibly terminal) period of difficulty.

ok the morning doesn't look too bad but the weather forecast said it was going to get rainy later. this week a bit rubbish, next week a bit better.