Chris, Three simple comments below*** Natalia All mail scanned by NAV ----- Original Message ----- From: Christoph Reuss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 12:43 PM Subject: Re: [Futurework] Minuteman Groups
| Natalia Kuzmyn wrote: | > Ever desperate for an excuse to bear arms, new groups of US citizens | > have been not only congregating to discuss concerns about illegal | > immigrants crossing their borders, they are actually taking it upon | > themselves to patrol the borders. They say they are worried about drugs, | > and especially about terrorists. They have been guarding the Mexican | > border for a while now, and as can be expected, have been subject to | > accusations of racism. Now a group is prepared to do the same at the | > Washington border to Canada, and have already begun to wander the nearby | > woodlands looking for those possible twenty or so per annum that might | > sneak across that way. | | In reply, Canadian managers should wander the corporate corridors looking | for U$ CEOs that might sneak in to control the Canadian economy... | ***Good one!| If only they had the spine or possessed the correct perception to recognize it.*** | > As was interestingly demonstrated by Prof. McMurtry of Guelph University | > Philosophy Department, the US tends to accuse other nations of evils that | > they themselves are currently or are about to unleash upon the accused. | | The U$ is not the only nation with this vice -- Israel is also great in | projections, e.g. denying the Palestinians the right of using terrorism | for founding an own state, when Israel itself was founded on terrorism. | | | On the purpose of psychological projections: | | In practice, the individual that uses a projection often does NOT | perceive the projected attributes as bad --after all, they are its OWN | attributes--, ***Projections are not consciously perceived by the projector--they are subconscious*** but knows that _others_ (or "the public") perceive these | attributes as bad. Consistently, the purpose of the projection is NOT | to "expel feelings or wishes the individual finds wholly unacceptable". | | Rather, the purpose is to mislead _third_parties_ about the projecting | person's character, making it look better (in comparison) than it is. | | I.e. if A is a thief, A accuses B of being a thief in order to | divert C's attention from A's theft (C can be "everyone else") -- | this does NOT mean (as the posted definition suggested) that A deems | theft a bad thing. Actually, A can be very proud of (own) thefts. | ***What you are describing here is deviousness or deception, both fully conscious types of behaviour. Projection in psychology deals with the subconscious mind, and is therefore far more subtle and difficult to recognize in oneself or others.*** Natalia | Chris | | ____________________________________________ | Charlton Heston: For the right to arm bears. | | | | | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | SpamWall: Mail to this addy is deleted unread unless it contains the keyword | "igve". | | | _______________________________________________ | Futurework mailing list | [email protected] | http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
