Yoram Hazony is not so smart

Submitted by yonatan silverman (Israel), Aug 17, 2010 at 21:21

Call me an iconoclast. I don't buy Hazony's exploitation of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions to interpret human non scientific history. The idea of paradigm shift applies logically to the evolution of communications via the internet, not the Zionist revolution. This is comparing apples and oranges. Hazony is barking up the wrong tree. But this is the doctrine at the reactionary Shalem Center.

I do not want to go on at length. Avrum Burg is a crackpot. A sad example of psychosis in need of hospitalization. Not a bona fide example of anything whatsoever except his own deranged thinking and uninhibited mouth. Once he was chairman of the formidable Jewish Agency. I think of him now in the same category as Spiro Agnew. Yesterday's news.

Why does Hazony's essay offer no policy responses? Because it has no connection to reality where policy proposals might be appropriate and relevant. Hazony's essay like most of the output of the reactionary Shalem center is totally irrelevant. Totally sealed from reality as we know it. His false exploitation of the paradigm concept and his cockeyed attempt to apply this concept to Israeli politics is preposterous.

he sketched three areas to address: building awareness of the new paradigm's existence, finding anomalies to invalidate it, and revitalizing the old paradigm by bringing it up to date.

Hazony is shooting from the hip and firing blanks.

All the best

yonatan

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