Hi folks,
as the forums relating to consciousness and the sacred landscape become more subjectively moderated they become blander and more banal. Is this true?
Do we as a race, nation, society and individuals become so wrapped up and protected/divorced from the real primal existence interior and exterior that we can no longer cope with freedom?
it would seem that we have mythologised the cult of victim hood to such a degree that it now has it's theology hierarchy and priests. Where will this lead us?
Are we such frightened little children that we require nay demand the protective parenthood of states, nations, authorities and moderators?
What does this Victim hood offer us? A childlike freedom from responsibility but nothing else! We see it spread it's insidious poison throughout society, trip on a curb or slip on a wet floor and how do most respond? Where there's blame there's a claim! Yep you got it litigation or somebody else's fault!
Within this relativist mindset of no responsibility we have seemed to accept that mutually exclusive truths can be true! That it is not what actually happened, what actually is or what was actually said that matters but how individuals feel about it! We can feel, think, emote, and create our own truths without responsibility.
It is extreme solipsism and a form of sanctioned, nay demanded schizophrenia. No surprise that we have created little amoral consumers in the perpetual engine of consumerism/capitalism.
Total freedom! from what? freedom from responsibility freedom from truth and freedom from love!
So why does censorship occur? Is it to protect us? If we are rational, educated, sane and loving humans what would we need to be protected from? Show us something that harms without need, denigrates without purpose, damages without discretion and we will see it for what it is......surely? we will turn away from and reject it's lack of love or truth......surely?
Hold a theory, belief or hypothesis up to cold light of discrimination, if it is smoke and mirrors it will be seen for such. So why can we not question certain areas? Why can we not argue that mutually exclusive truths cannot be truths? why can we not be vigorous investigators? Why are those that would tear down these duplicitous false idols silenced?
I know I have quoted this elsewhere but it seemed so apt.
"The populist authoritarianism that is the downside of political correctness means that anyone, sometimes it seems like everyone, can proclaim their grief and have it acknowledged. The victim culture, every sufferer grasping for their own Holocaust, ensures that anyone who feels offended can call for moderation, for dilution, and in the end, as is all too often the case, for censorship. And censorship, that by-product of fear - stemming as it does not from some positive agenda, but from the desire to escape our own terrors and superstitions by imposing them on others - must surely be resisted. ~Jonathon Green, "Did You Say 'Offensive?',"
I have to concur with Mr Green on this it is not love or truth that demands censorship but lies and fear!
What do others think?
Regards
MM
as the forums relating to consciousness and the sacred landscape become more subjectively moderated they become blander and more banal. Is this true?
Do we as a race, nation, society and individuals become so wrapped up and protected/divorced from the real primal existence interior and exterior that we can no longer cope with freedom?
it would seem that we have mythologised the cult of victim hood to such a degree that it now has it's theology hierarchy and priests. Where will this lead us?
Are we such frightened little children that we require nay demand the protective parenthood of states, nations, authorities and moderators?
What does this Victim hood offer us? A childlike freedom from responsibility but nothing else! We see it spread it's insidious poison throughout society, trip on a curb or slip on a wet floor and how do most respond? Where there's blame there's a claim! Yep you got it litigation or somebody else's fault!
Within this relativist mindset of no responsibility we have seemed to accept that mutually exclusive truths can be true! That it is not what actually happened, what actually is or what was actually said that matters but how individuals feel about it! We can feel, think, emote, and create our own truths without responsibility.
It is extreme solipsism and a form of sanctioned, nay demanded schizophrenia. No surprise that we have created little amoral consumers in the perpetual engine of consumerism/capitalism.
Total freedom! from what? freedom from responsibility freedom from truth and freedom from love!
So why does censorship occur? Is it to protect us? If we are rational, educated, sane and loving humans what would we need to be protected from? Show us something that harms without need, denigrates without purpose, damages without discretion and we will see it for what it is......surely? we will turn away from and reject it's lack of love or truth......surely?
Hold a theory, belief or hypothesis up to cold light of discrimination, if it is smoke and mirrors it will be seen for such. So why can we not question certain areas? Why can we not argue that mutually exclusive truths cannot be truths? why can we not be vigorous investigators? Why are those that would tear down these duplicitous false idols silenced?
I know I have quoted this elsewhere but it seemed so apt.
"The populist authoritarianism that is the downside of political correctness means that anyone, sometimes it seems like everyone, can proclaim their grief and have it acknowledged. The victim culture, every sufferer grasping for their own Holocaust, ensures that anyone who feels offended can call for moderation, for dilution, and in the end, as is all too often the case, for censorship. And censorship, that by-product of fear - stemming as it does not from some positive agenda, but from the desire to escape our own terrors and superstitions by imposing them on others - must surely be resisted. ~Jonathon Green, "Did You Say 'Offensive?',"
I have to concur with Mr Green on this it is not love or truth that demands censorship but lies and fear!
What do others think?
Regards
MM