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Posted by Lian Dao on 1/16/2008, 9:47 am, in reply to "Re: Civilized Insanuty"
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: Sad to say, but there's a LOT of truth in
: that.
: We are, after all, animals, and many of our
: "natural" reactions to the world
: about us are
: more based on the claw and fang than
: "civilization."
: It is considered "sane" to go off
: to war and to kill as many of the enemy as
: possible, and the "best" brains of
: society are ever inventing newer
: technologies of death. This is not an
: abberation. It is human, all too human.
: Alas, beyond this military-industrial
: version of "sanity," there is no
: model of a higher "sanity" that
: cannot and will not be criticized and
: rejected by some large segment of humanity.
: Jesus? Buddha? Laozi? Marx? Mao? Bush? The
: cure may just be another version of the
: delusion.
: We're all just thrown into this life without
: a guide book, and we must just do as best we
: can.
:
Valid words Fastovsky. i like your inference to the military-industrial complex, the Western model that is imposing it's version of normative reality globally in the name of the sacred cows of 'democracy' and 'freedom'.
i find it interesting that what we term 'civilisation' is mostly artifice, or human made, that is the civilising element stems from somewhere in our psyche, collective or otherwise, to live in cities, to make and enjoy or not even, art, to treat and sanitise our waste, to educate and punish and create technology to harm and heal.
i'm no Darwinian and certainly no Creationist, but it seems that the human psyche is pulled in two distinct directions, or rather it would appear to be so. Evolution and Creationist and Marxist determinism imply a lineal, historical progression of our race from a point towards a point, all of which seems to be rather at odds with the so-called ancient wisdom which inferred a cyclical movement of 'time'.
We can choose to blame or celebrate nature or humanity as we choose, such is the conditional paradox of our situation.
Amitofo!
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-Li Daoqun
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