Christoph Reuss wrote:
I'd push the argument even a bit further: the ubiquity of advertising
teaches by example that self-celebration, exaggeration, deceit, and
self-promotion are OK. Is it any surprise that ordinary people too often
reflect these values, and continue to do so if they come to prominence.
Professional athletes self-celebrate their smallest accomplishments on the
field, and presidents employ spin instead of policy.
This is the logical outcome as long as predators are in charge.
Those who call the shots make the rules of the game.
The propaganda has to be debunked, then the people will see that
the emperor has no clothes. Naked emperors have no authority left.
[snip]
I think we would need to anticipate a *transition period* during which
those persons -- almost all of us -- who were childreared into
the old regime would act dysfunctionally, including continuing to
childrear their children in the old ways. I like to think of
psychoanalysis as a *transitional* discipline: Needed to help
the crippled, in the old regime, to survive, and, in a new regime,
to help them cease to be self-destructive ("no pain, no gain",
"things shouldn't be too easy for people", "if you never experienced
bad things you couldn't appreciate the good things"...).
It's not simple. --Unless one believes in the indestructibility of
the innate goodness of the proletariat (the post-industrial return of Martin
Guerre...), or some such....
\brad mccormick
--
Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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