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Sep. 20th, 2006 03:41 amOh my, my life is just really becoming something.
Joseph Campbell was definitely onto a thing or two.
Joseph Campbell was definitely onto a thing or two.
Sep. 20th, 2006
On the higher tier, circuits 5-8 (in the Wilson/Leary model) are wonderful and definitely empowering and all that.
But I think that on the lower tier, circuit 4 has to win, if we want things to get better. We can't wait for everyone to open up their third eye.
We have to "shame the bad people". We have to tell people "No, you can't do that, no matter how much you're afraid(circuit 1) or angry(circuit 2), no matter how much it might 'make sense' from a real-politik standpoint(circuit 3). It's just plain awful and anti-social."
I know a lot of people are sort of "anti-moralistic", and in the context of religious sexual morality that makes sense. But there has to be some reason not to harm people, there has to be a line that you cannot cross "for the greater good" whatever the hell that means. You either see people as valid, self-owning individuals or you don't. And if you don't, you're objectively my enemy, even if we're friends on a direct, one-to-one level. I'll drink with you but come the revolution(which in my case is a revolution of self-defense), you'll have to pull the trigger yourself, don't expect me to acquiesce.
But I think that on the lower tier, circuit 4 has to win, if we want things to get better. We can't wait for everyone to open up their third eye.
We have to "shame the bad people". We have to tell people "No, you can't do that, no matter how much you're afraid(circuit 1) or angry(circuit 2), no matter how much it might 'make sense' from a real-politik standpoint(circuit 3). It's just plain awful and anti-social."
I know a lot of people are sort of "anti-moralistic", and in the context of religious sexual morality that makes sense. But there has to be some reason not to harm people, there has to be a line that you cannot cross "for the greater good" whatever the hell that means. You either see people as valid, self-owning individuals or you don't. And if you don't, you're objectively my enemy, even if we're friends on a direct, one-to-one level. I'll drink with you but come the revolution(which in my case is a revolution of self-defense), you'll have to pull the trigger yourself, don't expect me to acquiesce.