Originally posted by: Vic
Originally posted by: Moonbeam
Originally posted by: Vic
Originally posted by: Moonbeam
Creating a new man can be the same thing as creating a new religion. Who is this new man and how are we to create him.
Moonie, you know I respect you, but quite frankly your beliefs are a religion. And I don't go to church.
Maybe you can expand on this by addressing my previous post.
What would you have me address that I haven't addressed already? Quite frankly, I am sick of this thread.
This plus why it is religious----------------->:
Yes I was serious about wanting to read your posts and maybe so much so that I should apologize to others for my focus here on you.
V: The Left worships government as a form of idolatry. Idolatry is the irrational expectation that an external force can solve all of one's problems (i.e. a lucky charm or a diet pill that promises "no change in lifestyle required"). The Socialist Left believes that, if everything were in government control, all problems could be solved. This belief is irrational because it has already been proven (repeatedly throughout history) that increased government control creates exponentially increasing government corruption.
M: This is doubtless true of many people, but it is not my idea of what it means to be 'left'. Your remarks, then, are just a stereotype and as such unfairly categorize thinking left leaning people in my opinion. I believe, for example, that external force can solve nothing because it is based on fear and fear creates what it is afraid of. I believe that man is infinitely perfectible and that the way to that is by polishing the apple, not by coercing behavior. That means it is a process of unlearning false behaviors by insight into their origin and nature. We are all perfect but we don't know it. We are thus all perfect citizens. We hate ourselves, however, and feel the need to feed the hole in our soul with all manner of vice and greed. The function of government is to be sufficiently removed from each particular individual as is possible and has sufficient power so as to be able to intervene sufficiently in our affairs that we don't kill each other or some gang becomes strong enough to run the show. A two edged sword of this type needs rational checks and balances.
I believe also that government should be scientific enough to address human need and the problems being human create. As I said corruption is a result of not knowing who you are. In this we are, I'm afraid woefully lacking in intelligent insight, but we do stumble along somewhat effectively via pragmatic instinct and the application of some common sense. But the issue is that the human insanity we call this world is the product of the environment we grow up in. There is such a thing as healthier and less healthy environments. The job of an intelligent state, in my opinion, is to promote where possible, a better environment, one that nurtures an understanding that our failings are the result of self ignorance. This in particular would be an effort to reduce a social structure in which competition includes the tactic of getting ahead by putting other people down. We act like sh!t because we believe that we are. We were taught that early and do not remember what is not self flattering.
Take a simple dynamic, the buzz over political correctness. Some people realize they were hurt by certain words and those words made them feel bad. What they often fail to understand is that once you are infected with a negative self image, it's yours, you own it and it is your job to undo what was done and nobody else's. But the move to lessen the evil done by words can lessen future harm. When you punish people, however, for using certain words you simply make them more defensive than before because you inevitably imply they are no good. They already believe that, unconsciously, so they get all uptight and self righteous. It is not force, you will not use these words, then, that is the way. The way lies in understanding the dynamic in all its various parts. The person who insults with words does so out of his or her own hurt and intends to hurt others. But the answer lies in him or her understanding what is really going on. The more a person moves toward real inner deep self respect the less he hurts others.
So what we want then is not government control, but intelligent government guidance. The notion that more government creates more corruption is true of everything and every form of organization. But it is not a matter of more government but government with the right emphasis and understanding. By the way, power corrupts people who are corruptible, that means people who hate themselves.
V: Psuedo-science worship is the false belief that science can solve all problems and/or answer all questions. As that belief is known not to be true, it is therefore a form of faith, and a form of idolatry similar to that above.
M: This sounds good but for the fun of questioning whether this conclusion isn't itself pseudo-scientific I'll bite. How do we know that science can't solve all problems. Define what a problem is.
V: "The planet" worship is the anti-humanist agenda and false mysticist belief that humans are not part of nature. Their rallying cry is that "there are too many of us." For some odd reason, these individuals never seem to want to volunteer for their own genocidal (mass-suicidal?) agenda.
M: Well somebody else answered this properly in my opinion. We are part of nature and we can practice population control voluntarily for the sake of the planet. Educated engaged economically comfortable people have small families, for example.
V: Damn straight, that's my thoughts exactly. Both sides want control over you, just in different ways. Fvck both sides.
M: In my illustration of politically correctness I tried to show that both sides are both right and wrong. Fvsk both sides is reactionary and the result of a lack of insight into how opposites arise out of a single cause when viewed at a higher dimension. The left is saying more justice and the right is saying hey, I'm not unjust. Look at all the good I do. Both are correct and and both are wrong in certain ways.