[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> Nietzche (sp?) said something like "truth is the lie that allows a society
> to survive." Or as a colleague of mine says, society cannot live without
> myths.
My feeling is that few if any societies *have* lived
other than thru myths. But that man is "essentially"
a narrative, not a mytho[whatever] animal. I p[ropose that
we can live from stories which inspire us but which
we recognize are *stories*.
"Other than chance encounters,
We can only encounter in reality
what we have already encountered in fantasy."
(Gordon Hirshhorn)
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> Freud's "Civilization and its Discontents" is also of interest. Again he
> deals with tradeoffs between the individual and the larger unit.
I have a webpage about some of the points I consider
important in Freud's essay:
http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/civil.html
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> Society is about tradeoffs. That we can have it all: Individual freedom
> and creativity and social cohesion is at odds with most of what I understand
> about society and community.
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Who will be our Maynard Keynes of the Great Depression of the spirit?
I would nominate Szczepanski; interlibrary loan should
be able to get a copy of his essay.
"Yours in discourse...."
\brad mccormick
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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)
<![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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