term coined by W. H. Riker 1986 to denote the art and science of political manipulation. Intrigued that the root of heresy is from the Greek word meaning ‘to find out’, Riker coined ‘heresthetics’, and later dropped the final ‘s’. The coinage both parallels ‘aesthetics’ and correctly reflects the Greek middle voice for the sense ‘to find out for oneself’. Riker mostly had in mind manipulation to increase or diminish the number of issue dimensions in politics. If the number of dimensions is two or more, the median voter theorem does not apply, and cycles in majority rule are possible. Therefore, politics may lead to surprising outcomes. Herestheticians are politicians who can glimpse such possibilities and perhaps achieve such an outcome. Riker and his followers have claimed the title for a number of politicians, including (in the USA) Gouverneur Morris and Abraham Lincoln; (in New Zealand) ‘King Dick’ Seddon; and (in the UK) Sir Robert Peel and David Lloyd George. Lloyd George had a motto over his bed from the Book of Job, ‘There is a path which no fowl knoweth and which the eye of the vulture hath not seen’.
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amount to
1. Add up, develop into, as in Even though she's careful with her money, her savings don't amount to much, or All parents hope that their children will amount to something. [Mid-1500s]
2. Be equivalent to, as in Twenty persons won't amount to a good turnout. [Late 1300s] Also see amount to the same thing.
剛收到英文版《看不見的战争——一本書怎样擊敗一個帝國？》
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一本精美絕倫的小書，令我回憶起20年前在中國，在老家成都的舊書市場，買到一本茨威格的《異端的權利》—當時，我覺得自己是全世界最幸福的作家；而此刻，我覺得自己是全世界最幸福的、擁有「異端的權利」的漢語作家。
I have just received the English version of Invisible Warfare --- How does a Book Defeat an Empire？
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/09/liao-yiwu-chinese-dissident-who-smuggled-his-writing-out-of-prison
A beautiful little book that reminds me of 20 years ago, when I was still in China, I bought a copy of Zweig's The Heterodox Right at the used book market in my hometown Chengdu - at that time, I thought I was the happiest writer in the world; and at this moment, I think I'm the happiest Chinese-language writer in the world who owns "The Heterodox Right"!
但是，他們不會成功。這個必須分裂的帝國不會成功。無論是普京還是習近平，都不會成功。猶如列寧、希特勒、史達林、毛澤東、鄧小平不會成功一樣。是的，在一次接一次的獨裁病毒所造成的浩劫中，無數的人無辜地慘死，但是，我們對於罪惡的文字和影像的記載，會讓他們活著
But they will not succeed. This empire, which must be fragmented, will not succeed. Neither Putin nor Xi Jinping will succeed. Just as Lenin, Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong, and Deng Xiaoping could not succeed. Yes, in the catastrophes, one after another, caused by the virus of dictatorship, countless innocent people die tragically, yet our records in words and images of the dictatorship’s evil will let them live on… -
會讓天空和大地一樣遼闊的無名死者，作為罪惡的見證人而永遠活著
…. let the nameless dead, whose sky is as vast as the earth, live forever as witnesses to evil.
https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=invisible-warfare-how-does-a-book-defeat-an-empire--9781509562947
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