Life and Durth
Political emancipation of the self from society is a notion that isn’t new, especially in certain realms of thought like feminism. In Feminism, sexuality is a form of politics that includes its own hierarchies, the male-female dyad, and other forms of control. It’s a rather esoteric realm of thought, really aloof from the every day existence of women, as are politics in general. We become emotionally enmeshed in our candidates, party, or policy and it blinds our sensibilities. An institutional mindset becomes problematic as it stands as the rubric by which we begin to understand our universe. We cut off what does not fit into this scope and determine it to be less-than-useful. “Right wing” and “left wing” political supporters are institutionalized to think that their party (regardless of the fact that the term “left” and “right” are virtually meaningless in today’s world) has all of the correct answer and that the other guy is “bad.” This “badness” is usually carefully constructed symbolically with morality, ethics, sexuality, or nationalism.
One of the most functionally successful institutions is religion. A human facet studied by everyone from Freud to Durkheim to Kafka, Religion is an institution with an etiology, teleology and a “raison d’etre”. It is one of the few cultural universals that stands both synchronically and diachronically and yet has no parallel.
Amazing.
I’m sort of tired of hearing people invoke the holier-than-thou debate in politics, academia or in Church. It’s become so unoriginal, so stale, that we don’t flinch when someone tries to question our beliefs. Fifty per cent of the population shrugs it off, and the other fifty per cent get defensive and try and rationalize morality. Do the people who invoke moral superiority really know what morality is? I’m sure they’ll vaunt some esoteric passage from the Bible that’s been beaten into them as a safe-guard from critically thinking about one’s own religiosity.
I hate Christians who don’t debate about faith, and instead preach.
One of the most functionally successful institutions is religion. A human facet studied by everyone from Freud to Durkheim to Kafka, Religion is an institution with an etiology, teleology and a “raison d’etre”. It is one of the few cultural universals that stands both synchronically and diachronically and yet has no parallel.
Amazing.
I’m sort of tired of hearing people invoke the holier-than-thou debate in politics, academia or in Church. It’s become so unoriginal, so stale, that we don’t flinch when someone tries to question our beliefs. Fifty per cent of the population shrugs it off, and the other fifty per cent get defensive and try and rationalize morality. Do the people who invoke moral superiority really know what morality is? I’m sure they’ll vaunt some esoteric passage from the Bible that’s been beaten into them as a safe-guard from critically thinking about one’s own religiosity.
I hate Christians who don’t debate about faith, and instead preach.