I agree with Brad:
Brad McCormick, Ed.D. wrote:
>
> Perhaps this is as good a place as any to clarify something
> about some of my postings that may not have been obvious due
> to my having other "fish to fry": I think Jay's disgnoses and
> progmoses of waht's likely to happen in our world are probably
> mostly pretty probable. My disagreement with his postings
> is when he gets into the man-is-an-animal *metaphysics*.
> Perhaps, as Hannah Arendt said the classical Greeks believed,
> some instances of the biological species "homo sapiens"
> are indeed on the other side of that line which divides the human
> from the less-than-human. But that does not mean that
> some persons at some times have not crossed over the line.
(snip)
> Could it make the time which remains to us who still
> are alive richer, more rewarding, and, if the end comes,
> less terrible? *That* I believe is quite possible. My
> disagreement with Jay's postings is simply with their
> feeding into the ideology which makes persons think they are
> less than they can be and thereby helps them to become
> that less (if you don't like Husserl, Gregory Bateson,
> one of the fathers of ecology, etc. said the same thing).
>
May be the reason is that persons often tend to seek their identity in
what they are missing.
There was some time ago a rather strange debate here.
Some blind persons wanted to have an operation which might give them
back their ability to see. But then organizations of blinds protested to
this surgery. They said it removed the dignity of blind people. Blind
people were now developing their own culture based upon blindness, and
those who wanted to leave the state of blindness were traitors to their
culture.
When people are deprived of something they will often think about it all
the time. I have read about persons who were in concentrations camp
during the war, and they were thinking about food all the time. They
were talking about food all the time in the day and dreaming about food
in the night.
Like this sexuality can cause problems, and Freud met people with
problems that Freud interpreted to be sexual problems, and since that
time it has been populare to reduce everything to sexuality.
This might be the case for people living in a sexually deprived
environment, like food is what all is about for other people.
But it is too arrogant to say that sexuality in the end is all that
matters for everybody. I have read that americans have a strange
relationship to sexuality, (and many others too.)
All the best
Tor Forde
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