Dear Brad
Thanks for this.
It is little wonder that (despite the fruit-full-ness of:
"The starry heavens above and the moral order within.")
that we make such poor fists of relationships, given that we are, daily,
the subjects of capitalism's life-long brainwashing.
In a world that exalts the devil (human selfishness) - possession, use of
profit, etc - then it is of no wonder that our success rate at nurturing
right relationships is *so* atrocious.
To stay sane, my working principle is to posit the exact opposite of the
proposition made and to, then, start thinking.
Thanks for the author info.
- Good speed the era of right relationships!
hugs 2 all
Your inarchist Friend
john
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>From: "Brad McCormick, Ed.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: john courtneidge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Cc: Michael Gurstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, futurework
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: cj#1116> Curitiba: A City Managed by Common Sense
>Date: Tue, Aug 15, 2000, 11:38 PM
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> john courtneidge wrote:
> [snip]
>> BTW can any recall who was it who marvelled at:
>>
>> "The starry heavens above and the moral order within."
>
> Immanuel Kant. A harder question: exactly *where* did
> he write it?
>
>>
>> [ And, perhaps we might add:
>>
>> "and the inclusive society around." ? ]
>
> My psychoanalytic and anthropological backgrounds
> would prefer to word this as:
>
> and the usually ex-clusive society
> in-trojected/in-culcated by childrearing
>
> Kant's two majesties are both constructs of
> reason which can give an accounting for itself.
>
> Childrearing is, to borrow a phrase from William S. Burrows:
> a virus from outer space, which, since usually all
> are infected similarly, seldom do any find anything
> remarkable about it (In the land of the blind, a
> one-eyed man is adjudged insane).
>
> "Common sense" can mean at least two very different
> things: (1) "the obvious" -- i.e., the unwitting
> illusions of a whole social group, or (2) that
> "sense" which wittingly endeavors to harmonize
> the reports of all the individual perceptual
> pathways.
>
> [snip]
>
> +\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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