(10 am. – promoted by ek hornbeck)
Some days, I have no idea what to say.
Some days, it looks like the….
Mar 16 2011
Mar 16 2011
(10 am. – promoted by ek hornbeck)
Some days, I have no idea what to say.
Some days, it looks like the….
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know; he who knows does not speak?
With our entire civilization descending into incoherent, unfathomable babble, he’s beginning to make sense.
Where we breathe, grind our food, vomit, wail in grief, scream in pain and ecstasy, just happens to be the same place where we regurgitate our reptilian thoughts, nicely packaged in our recent neocortical cellophane.
Just sayin, of course*
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The great challenge of the American Experiment was to
blend law with morality. But before such an attempt could even be undertaken, Americans took on a conquest mentality and justified it as a mandate from God. The great wealth of “America” became “earned and deserved”. Whatever happened, God willed it. And a “natural order” evolved that was exactly the same as the “old order”, but just cast in different terms.
It is necessarily “hostile”, for only in such a climate can a small group dominate a larger one. Laissez-faire capitalism requires its own lexicon, and it worships the idea of the individual (and more recently the corporation) against the world.
But the flesh and blood individual becomes deeply isolated, subordinated and alienated and cannot help but feel the deep chasm between himself and the external world. He or she somehow is not the ideal individual, and to be so, she must work and fight for it. In a way, this is kind of like “economic original sin”.