If we forget to laugh at ourselves as all serious thinkers tend to do; we will not survive our own technology. It has a 'mind' of its own and no sense of humour at all. And everything is either on or off, one or zero...the basic concept of our culture is black and white. Good or evil. You have to read McGilchrist to get to a kind of bridge, but he isn't easy...
I call this black and white thinking. Which is a distinct and totally separate concept from moral relativism - a problematic tendency to overlook actual harm which is being done in the name of good.
Hi why are you lumping in Salvador Allende with Putin, Noriega etc as a representative of foreign darkness. In the discussion around good and evil I believe Allende was on the side of good. Perhaps you are talking about Pinochet?
You’re misunderstanding. Or perhaps I’m not being clear. Im talking about the habit of projecting darkness onto others. All of these figures were cast as evildoers by Empire, regardless of their intrinsic leadership/democratic qualities. Allende in Chile had great domestic support for initiating social programs, which was unacceptable to Nixon and Kissinger. In contrast Pinochet ( Argentina) was an authoritarian figure with a habit of disappearing people, who was cast as a good guy. Make sense now?
"Solzynetisn’s “small bridgehead for good” rejects moral absolutism while refusing to embrace a relativism that negates the existence of good and evil outright."
I wonder if humans are evolved to a point where they clearly understand this point, cognitively and can finesse it emotionally, as well.
If we forget to laugh at ourselves as all serious thinkers tend to do; we will not survive our own technology. It has a 'mind' of its own and no sense of humour at all. And everything is either on or off, one or zero...the basic concept of our culture is black and white. Good or evil. You have to read McGilchrist to get to a kind of bridge, but he isn't easy...
I call this black and white thinking. Which is a distinct and totally separate concept from moral relativism - a problematic tendency to overlook actual harm which is being done in the name of good.
Hi why are you lumping in Salvador Allende with Putin, Noriega etc as a representative of foreign darkness. In the discussion around good and evil I believe Allende was on the side of good. Perhaps you are talking about Pinochet?
You’re misunderstanding. Or perhaps I’m not being clear. Im talking about the habit of projecting darkness onto others. All of these figures were cast as evildoers by Empire, regardless of their intrinsic leadership/democratic qualities. Allende in Chile had great domestic support for initiating social programs, which was unacceptable to Nixon and Kissinger. In contrast Pinochet ( Argentina) was an authoritarian figure with a habit of disappearing people, who was cast as a good guy. Make sense now?
"Solzynetisn’s “small bridgehead for good” rejects moral absolutism while refusing to embrace a relativism that negates the existence of good and evil outright."
I wonder if humans are evolved to a point where they clearly understand this point, cognitively and can finesse it emotionally, as well.