{"id":8286,"date":"2013-12-12T15:17:07","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T15:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/12\/12\/bill-oreilly-and-mungo-jerry\/"},"modified":"2013-12-12T15:17:07","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T15:17:07","slug":"bill-oreilly-and-mungo-jerry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/12\/12\/bill-oreilly-and-mungo-jerry\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill O’Reilly, Mungo Jerry, and Immanuel Kant"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mr. Bill made a mistake the other night on The O'Reilly Factor<\/em> when he said that the British skiffle group Mungo Jerry's sole Stateside hit, In the Summertime<\/a>, is from '67.  Not so, as I instantly recalled: it is from the summer of 1970.  I remember because that was the summer I first read Kant, ploughing through The Critique of Pure Reason.<\/em>  I sat myself down under a tree in Garfield Park<\/a> in  South Pasadena with the Norman Kemp Smith translation and dove in.  I couldn't make head nor tail of it.  But I persisted and eventually wrote my dissertation on Kant.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now why is Mr. Bill's mistake worth mentioning?  Because, to paraphrase Santayana, those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.  And we wouldn't want to repeat the '60s. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Mr. Bill made a mistake the other night on The O'Reilly Factor when he said that the British skiffle group Mungo Jerry's sole Stateside hit, In the Summertime, is from '67.  Not so, as I instantly recalled: it is from the summer of 1970.  I remember because that was the summer I first read Kant, … Continue reading “Bill O’Reilly, Mungo Jerry, and Immanuel Kant”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,18,146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiographical","category-music","category-sixties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}