”These guys you mention, well, they have all assumed for themselves this romantic persona of being an intellectual knight who sallies forth to slay all these evil dragons, but really all they are doing is working to improve and maintain the system's efficient and productive functioning and meeting their own psychological needs for power, and to do something 'meaningful' while being admired and worshipped as self-sacrificing, noble, etc.
However, the system itself is 'demonic', and that means that it's paladins must tie themselves up in knots with this tortured and hypocritical 'logic' to maintain this illusion that they're actually these chivalrous and 'good' Arthurian knights of legend, instead of the bunch of twisted Nazgul that they've become in service of 'Sauron'.
Going with your examples, Harris (who I admit to not being familiar with) thinks it's okay to conspire and suppress the truth to get a globalist into power, Zizek and Chomsky are both happy to trample individuals' liberty and dignity with their support for enforcing the system's will with respect to health - and no doubt everything else that they think is in the systems'/collective interests as well.”
Very insightful.I can personally recognize all of this within myself. I was a pretty hardcore lefty a decade a go, untill I somehow ended up reading a book on Nietzsche and I realized what a hypocrite I really was. Luckily for the world I never held any real institutional power, so I couldn't do much damage to other people. My own inner life had become twisted like a snakes nest though. I did a lot of moral posturing and that's why I have such a distate for it now; It reminds me of myself.
Yeah...The system might really be demonic. You are propably right. It doesn't really allow for anything to be sacred anymore. It has no place for the human spirit either.
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Re: Sam Harris
Date: 2022-08-22 09:07 pm (UTC)However, the system itself is 'demonic', and that means that it's paladins must tie themselves up in knots with this tortured and hypocritical 'logic' to maintain this illusion that they're actually these chivalrous and 'good' Arthurian knights of legend, instead of the bunch of twisted Nazgul that they've become in service of 'Sauron'.
Going with your examples, Harris (who I admit to not being familiar with) thinks it's okay to conspire and suppress the truth to get a globalist into power, Zizek and Chomsky are both happy to trample individuals' liberty and dignity with their support for enforcing the system's will with respect to health - and no doubt everything else that they think is in the systems'/collective interests as well.”
Very insightful.I can personally recognize all of this within myself. I was a pretty hardcore lefty a decade a go, untill I somehow ended up reading a book on Nietzsche and I realized what a hypocrite I really was. Luckily for the world I never held any real institutional power, so I couldn't do much damage to other people. My own inner life had become twisted like a snakes nest though. I did a lot of moral posturing and that's why I have such a distate for it now; It reminds me of myself.
Yeah...The system might really be demonic. You are propably right. It doesn't really allow for anything to be sacred anymore. It has no place for the human spirit either.
-Juhani