[MD] The MoQ and Politics?

[MarshaV]

On Jan 19, 2011, at 12:45 PM, John Carl wrote:

> 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






Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj:
Causes and results are infinite in number and variety.  Everything affects 
everything.  In this universe, when one thing changes, everything changes.  
Hense the great power of man in changing the world by changing himself.



 
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