[MD] The MoQ and Politics?

[John Carl]

Hi Ian,

No apology necessary.  I appreciate well-intended criticism.


> Fortunately, we are (can be) more sophisticated socio-intellectual
> organisms than that monkey, faced with simple "monkey see, monkey do"
> options in life, despite DMB's reductionist take on ideological
> choices.
>
>
Well here, I think, is where the analysis of the "messiah person" is
fascinating.  It is true that we CAN be more sophisticated, but most of us
are not or choose not to be.  It doesn't seem worth the effort to fight
against the crowd for most people. And often for  a person who does  have an
independent enough nature to resist the social forces of group cohesion
they  then don't care enough about "the crowd" to try and change it.  They
are loners, rebels, but without a cause. This is what makes messiah-ship a
relatively rare phenomenon, imo.    The person who goes against the crowd,
must sacrifice his/her personal comfort and happiness in order to resist the
social patterns of conformity.  To purposely follow a different drum in the
face of all this resistance, in the service of something bigger, requires
either a theistic leaning which hopes for a reward in the afterlife, or some
sort of faith in an ideal with which they identify.

Loyalty.  I wonder if anybody has ever contemplated a philosophy of Loyalty
before?

John the sarcastic