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Materialism and Individuals
Perhaps I could make a lot of money by founding a Thinker’sAnonymous organization. It surely is the rage to eschew thinking. Helping people achieve great things is worthwhile to your SELF. If you do not know your SELF you will hurt those you try tomake do what you want them to. This macho control mechanismbuilt into materialistic society is exemplified by professionalsand experts who are giving drugs to manage ‘money-trees’(students and Ritalin, or old people and ECT especially) andmanaging bureaucracies or saying they are ‘just’ as they lead usto in-’just’-ice: 1. War 2. Religion and divisive ethnicideologies – rather than ecumenical spiritual goals 3. Hate forothers and putting women in a second class status 4. Insistingon education to make others BE like them 5. Pursuit of powerrather than LOVE and creativity It is summed up in the words of the noted journal TheEconomist in their millennium issue – they call what we have’an inhumane bureaucracy’ as they enumerate the outcome of theNapoleonic War’s institution of ‘standing armies’. Wholism is spiritual & ass-’holes’ are not. Holism is not Wholism! This is a response to a person who wanted the nuts and bolts ofwhat I said in a detailed expose of Wholistic approaches thatare in variance to the way of many social programs and ouroverall bureaucracy. It is probably part of the kind of thoughtthat the Beat Generation, Hippies, Cynics like Jesus and Gothsor other drop-outs that ‘turn-on’ to new paradigms andalternatives, have been seeing since the dawn of civilization. ‘The flower children and groupies are not often willing to dothe work that many business types and academics have done. Ihave found what I think of as independent thinkers (Which is themain characteristic of a Hippie, I think.) in all social groupsor walks of life. Michel Foucault and his students at theSorbonne or Pierre Trudeau and Jean-Paul Sartre and his beau areestablished thinkers of the genre. This book and the workrequired of any forum seeking change will try to explore whythey are so unable to get a larger audience to actually take theethics they speak about and apply them in real world changes. I will have to get past the Hegelian Being-ness and otherconfused Neo-Platonic rhetoric to the nuts and bolts of Gothicideas and historical agendas again. I guess the cultivation ofpositive emotions can assist in a therapeutic manner which willenable people. But wishful-thinking alone will not solve much ofthe ethical issues borne through constant power-mongering orpeople needing to fight each other for more of that elusive andfictional One Pie. Let us strive to reduce any cherishedillusions of our history if they do not stand the test of commonsense for the good of all people. It may turn out to be anexploration of the sublime inter-connectiveness and I hope Iwill be fair in seeing the positives that Machiavelli and thelikes of Carlyle can offer real thinkers in the present aswell.’
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