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Mar. 5th, 2008 11:58 amI think I'm getting very close to understanding how the personal and the political/economic work together.
My prior critiques of Things As They Exist weren't wrong, but the context wasn't linked up properly, so it was prone to misinterpretation (especially by myself, I'm not taking myself off the hook here either).
By grounding these processes in history, one is able to have a compassionate view of humanity but also see where things went wrong and why, and this is necessary if you want to convince people to change direction.
Will without love leads to fascism. It becomes a hyperindividualism that lacks a vision of intersubjectivity, that whatever power I arrogate to myself, I must acknowledge in the other. Love without will leads to a soft totalitarianism that we see in what are considered "ideal societies" today. It becomes a "hive" mentality that loses sight of the fundamental eccentricity of people, an eccentricity which is necessary if we want to continue to be human.
A ruthless skepticism toward all ideals and a boundless compassion for all people are both necessary if we wish to escape the ingressing spiral we are caught in today.
My prior critiques of Things As They Exist weren't wrong, but the context wasn't linked up properly, so it was prone to misinterpretation (especially by myself, I'm not taking myself off the hook here either).
By grounding these processes in history, one is able to have a compassionate view of humanity but also see where things went wrong and why, and this is necessary if you want to convince people to change direction.
Will without love leads to fascism. It becomes a hyperindividualism that lacks a vision of intersubjectivity, that whatever power I arrogate to myself, I must acknowledge in the other. Love without will leads to a soft totalitarianism that we see in what are considered "ideal societies" today. It becomes a "hive" mentality that loses sight of the fundamental eccentricity of people, an eccentricity which is necessary if we want to continue to be human.
A ruthless skepticism toward all ideals and a boundless compassion for all people are both necessary if we wish to escape the ingressing spiral we are caught in today.