Slight edits to copied post from a previous mstdn account:

> This little book is an example of the free use of Basic English.

> Is another step possible which would put the defense of all
countries in the hands of the PEOPLES of the earth?
> Can we make the UN into a UP— a United Peoples’ Government?
> Can we put defense in the hands of a World Government responsible to and representative of the PEOPLES..

- https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.74399
#UnitedWorldFederalists
#IaR #IaRichards #NationsAndPeace #UnitedPeoples #UnitedNations #BasicEnglish #CKOgden

I have to figure out how to log in and borrow Archive.org books one day:

It's nice when you can download books onto your own HD and caliber library.. but sometimes, you can't...

https://archive.org/details/wrathofachilles0000iari/page/6/mode/1up

#TheIliad #WrathOfAchilles #IARichards

cont.
https://archive.org/details/iliadofhomerwrat0000iari/page/6/mode/1up

Instead of Percy Shelly's "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world" we should take the pressure of the human individual and say, like I.A. Richards "Poetry is the unacknowledged legislation of the world".

Otherwise it's hard to make use of a lot of poems and other works... like Chomsky's analysis of Western power, policy, and media..
#PoetLegislators or #PoetryLegislation #PercyShelley #IARichards

"Poetry is the unacknowledged legislation of the world" --- I.A. Richards

> "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.." --- Shelley

In Defense of Poetry
(Helped Coleridge... according to Richards...)
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5428/5428-h/5428-h.htm

#PoetLegislators #PoetryLegislation
#PercyShelley #IARichards

"In this case, we must embrace the song if not the singer"
#JeffreyStClair on #BruceSpringstein's
#StreetsOfMinneapolis got me thinking of Shelley and Richards lines, Chomsky's questionable relations with Epstein too...

The Lawrence Wittner article that mentioned Norman Cousins and the United World Federalists brought to mind _Nations and Peace_ a Basic English book by I.A. Richards and a United Federalist

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.74399/page/n153/mode/2up?view=theater

#IARichards #NationsAndPeace #UnitedWorldFederalists #WorldGovernment

We need an UP: United Peoples
that can work
better than UN: United Nations....

#IARichards #NationsAndPeace

https://diasp.org/posts/20326367

#SylviaJ #DiasporasSylviaJ