[MD] The MoQ and Politics?

[John Carl]

Marsha,

The communal aspects of existentialists are something I haven't studied
much.  It sounds like you have and what you say makes sense, so I'll take
your word for it.


> Don't the existentialists think that what holds social organizations
> together
> is a shared sense of anxiety/guilt, a group of beings frightened by their
> underlying fear that they lack "real" existence?  How do you fix the
> political
> when the foundations are so whacked?
>

I think you are right.  It is exactly the foundational aspects of our
current political/cultural system which make up the "out of whack" that we
find ourselves in.   A new fundamental approach is needed.  A belief in a
metaphysical good which transcends competing individual interests.

However, it's hard to envision such a realization taking hold, when even on
this list where it would be assumed we all "get it", and yet we're stuck in
the same competitive egoistic games that we argue against.

I think I'll have more to say on the matter after I've thoroughly digested
Mary's posting of Levy.  That looks pretty interesting.

Yours,

John