From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Tue Mar 12 2002 - 09:13:37 MST
Samantha Atkins wrote:
>
> Randal A. Koene wrote:
>
> > Hi there,
> >
> >
> >>The idea that human thinking is low grade is an artifact of primitive
> >>religious superstition and statist disinformation. It is human thinking
> >>that has gotten us as far as we have, so it obviously must be pretty
> >>damn good.
> >>
>
> That it has worked thus far to the degree it has says nothing
> about whether it is adequate to the problems of today much less
> of tomorrow. It is certainly easily demonstrable that it has
> quite a few serious limitations. And it doesn't have a damn
> thing to do with either religion or statism to note that this is so.
>
> I could sort of see the religion angle, espcially as it has
>
> infected a lot of discussion in philosophy with Abasolutes.
> But what the heck does statism have to do with it?
Because it has nothing to do with absolutes, and more to do with
psychwar techniques of programming ones subjects to believe that they
are not worthy of individual liberty, of self determination. Techniques
such as these have been used by priests and politicians for millenia to
con people into surrendering to authoritarian power structures.
Today's liberal politicans (and the non-evangelical protestant priests)
convince the voters that the average yokel can't be trusted with his/her
own money, firearms, morals, or private property, while religious right
wingers convince the voters that women can't be trusted with their
ovaries, that people can't be trusted with free speech, computers,
pictures of naked women, etc.
The easiest way to convince people of this is to 'prove' that the
average person's thinking is 'low grade', 'primitive', even 'beastial'
and needs to be restrained from their natural inclinations by force.
When you've been programmed to be your own best prison warden, what need
is there of real iron bars?
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