[MD] The MoQ and Politics?

[MarshaV]

Hi John, 


My statement is only the sense I made from the very little I have read 
on existentialism.  I thought at some point in time you had said you 
were an existentialist.  But never mind for now; it seems Mary has 
presented some very interesting ideas.  


On Jan 16, 2011, at 7:57 PM, John Carl wrote:

> 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.

A very good point!   I can be such a dreamer. -  I'll be quiet now.    


> 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

 
I am looking forward to hearing more. 


Yours,

Marsha

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