Posted on 12/06/2016 3:24:55 AM PST by jalisco555
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Jungs propositions was that whatever a person values most highly is their god. If people think they are atheistic, it means is they are unconscious of their gods. In a sophisticated religious system, there is a positive and negative polarity. Ideologies simplify that polarity and, in doing so, demonize and oversimplify. I got interested in ideology, in a large part, because I got interested in what happened in Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, the Cultural Revolution in China, and equivalent occurrences in other places in the world. Mostly I concentrated on Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. I was particularly interested in what led people to commit atrocities in service of their belief. The motto of the Holocaust Museum in Washington is we must never forget. Ive learned that you cannot remember what you dont understand. People dont understand the Holocaust, and they dont understand what happened in Russia. I have this course called Maps of Meaning, which is based on a book I wrote by the same name, and it outlines these ideas. One of the things that Im trying to convince my students of is that if they had been in Germany in the 1930s, they would have been Nazis. Everyone thinks Not me, and thats not right. It was mostly ordinary people who committed the atrocities that characterized Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.
Part of the reason I got embroiled in this [gender identity] controversy was because of what I know about how things went wrong in the Soviet Union. Many of the doctrines that underlie the legislation that Ive been objecting to share structural similarities with the Marxist ideas that drove Soviet Communism. The thing I object to the most was the insistence that people use these made up words like xe and xer...
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My daughter is in college. After the election the liberal prof went on a depressing rant about Trump, and then thought it would be good to go around the class and have all the students say what they were thankful and happy about.
“Lasagana”
“My dog”
“My family”
“The mountains”
“Well, I’m thankful and happy that Trump won last night.” (Gasps from several of the girls, and the profs jaw dropped).
“Yeah - it was pretty funny dad. Except after hearing ‘lasagna’ I thought that would have been a good one too.”
This is an important post to read.
“When you said that, I am reminded of the scene from Orwell’s 1984...”
Can you believe books like 1984 and Atlas Shrugged, for example, have existed for decades, and yet our politicians just keep blundering into the same scenarios in real life!?!?
What is really frightening is that it appears they aren’t blundering into the same scenarios, but are instead deliberately entering them.
And appear to be using books like 1984 and Atlas Shrugged as manuals rather than cautionary tales. It is astonishing.
It is one of the reasons (for me) that Atlas Shrugged resonates. An act like the “Anti Dog-Eat-Dog Act” doesn’t look as completely stupid and outlandish as it is, because it seems like we have enacted legislation that makes something like that look like a foregone conclusion.
Thank you for posting this!
A great - and informative - read.
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