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A pleasure I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude
What's absolutely key is that both frames are something you live, rather than something you think.
(Should I leave the equivalent frame for European social democracy as an exercise for the reader?)
No?
Now seriously, this is scarily postmodern. En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma
this is scarily postmodern.
Surely universal human rights are superior to rights that only pertain to a specific ethnicity and that superiority can be maintained even while allowing the perception and implementation to be critiqued on the grounds of relativism. I think much of the problem is that people look for given rather than being willing to accept responsibility for created values. "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
Is it not possible to accept postmodern tools, such as deconstruction
possible? i'd say essential... 'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty
Or is the Christian mythology archetypal? paul spencer
maybe if you boil christianity down to its essence, sans effluvia, it comes down to a bouillon of two basic ingredients:
whether it cannot be superceded... i suspect so, it's the how that is the puzzle.
but were that impulse unsuccessful, at least the old tried and true one was noble, if overchallenging for most, (therefore alienating). buddha's road is better tailored to the average human's scale and range of attainability.
the theory is fine, it's the execution that's the problem... the numbers need onside to make ahimsa effective are a quantum magnitude greater that what is muster-able now. 'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty
An additional point that fits in many (including these two) is that wise men once wrote big books that proved this once and for all. Thus there is really no need to actually read the books. Sweden's finest (and perhaps only) collaborative, leftist e-newspaper Synapze.se
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