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From: "Brad McCormick, Ed.D."
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Subject: Re: one musician and 9
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> > This is something
> > along the lines of the survival and evolution of memes. The religions
> > we have are the ones which successfully indoctrinated their followers
> > deeply enough to perpetuate through time. They presumably contain
> > the necessary appeals to deep motivations which enabled them to
> > persist in hostile environments. Perhaps the same needs which keep
> > religions alive foster ethnocentricism and bigotry....
> >
> > -Pete Vincent
> >
> > (I say, the proper way to approach the ultimate is via a sect of
> > one. This world is a school, and we ought to do our own homework.)
>
> Then you would agree with me that ethnicities (all
> beliefs, habits, etc. which infect the child's soul
> before he or she has the resources of critical
> hermeneutics, law, anthropology, etc. to be able
> to judge them and decide whether or not they
> are good to let in...) -- all "lares et penates", etc. are
> semiotic viruses which infect persons' "minds" (their
> lived form of life, AKA consciousness, etc.)?
>
> We need a Public Health Service of the Spirit to treat
> the global epidemics of ethno-viruses which, because everyone has the
> same sickness, are taken for normality or even
> flourishing.
>
> The cure for ethnicity ("memes"?) is genuine liberal education: Learning
> the concepts of the polis and of personal self-accountability
> for one's perceptions, beliefs, etc. --> and doing this in
> a peer dialogical space which reinforces by
> exemplification the content being
> taught (a classroom with exams, grades, etc., teaches
> by example subjection to Power, and therefore has nothing to
> do with what I am talking here about).
>
> Since all that which is or might be or cannot be
> finds its place in the living discourse each of us
> is in the form of "I am", "the ultimate" -- what encompasses
> them all, can only be that living personal discourse
> itself, in which even G-d or Y-w-h, if they exist,
> find their place (perhaps this wounds their Deitific
> pride so that they do acts of sadistic medical
> experimentation -- Job -- and paramoid terror -- Babel -- on us).
>
> We have never yet really been modern.
>
> \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)
>
> > This is something
> > along the lines of the survival and evolution of memes. The religions
> > we have are the ones which successfully indoctrinated their followers
> > deeply enough to perpetuate through time. They presumably contain
> > the necessary appeals to deep motivations which enabled them to
> > persist in hostile environments. Perhaps the same needs which keep
> > religions alive foster ethnocentricism and bigotry....
> >
> > -Pete Vincent
> >
> > (I say, the proper way to approach the ultimate is via a sect of
> > one. This world is a school, and we ought to do our own homework.)
>
> Then you would agree with me that ethnicities (all
> beliefs, habits, etc. which infect the child's soul
> before he or she has the resources of critical
> hermeneutics, law, anthropology, etc. to be able
> to judge them and decide whether or not they
> are good to let in...) -- all "lares et penates", etc. are
> semiotic viruses which infect persons' "minds" (their
> lived form of life, AKA consciousness, etc.)?
>
> We need a Public Health Service of the Spirit to treat
> the global epidemics of ethno-viruses which, because everyone has the
> same sickness, are taken for normality or even
> flourishing.
>
> The cure for ethnicity ("memes"?) is genuine liberal education: Learning
> the concepts of the polis and of personal self-accountability
> for one's perceptions, beliefs, etc. --> and doing this in
> a peer dialogical space which reinforces by
> exemplification the content being
> taught (a classroom with exams, grades, etc., teaches
> by example subjection to Power, and therefore has nothing to
> do with what I am talking here about).
>
> Since all that which is or might be or cannot be
> finds its place in the living discourse each of us
> is in the form of "I am", "the ultimate" -- what encompasses
> them all, can only be that living personal discourse
> itself, in which even G-d or Y-w-h, if they exist,
> find their place (perhaps this wounds their Deitific
> pride so that they do acts of sadistic medical
> experimentation -- Job -- and paramoid terror -- Babel -- on us).
>
> We have never yet really been modern.
>
> \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)
>
Brad,
It was in the work of Edward T. Hall and Clifford
Geertz that the Europeans were nailed on the issue of what Geertz called "Local
Knowledge." When he wanted to do a study of the culture,
i.e. scientific "ethnicity", of the scientists at the Institute for Advanced
Studies they refused contending that their regalia and scientific myths were
real and not unreal like all of the other cultures of the
world. Really Brad, which style of music would you pick as
being without ethnicity? Which language? It
is a fraudulent argument. Ethnicities are just colors in the whole
(not races but colors as in a painting). Your comment about
continual change in Husserl is a good example. It was a conceit of
the late romantic. Schoenberg did it and what he got was not
an evolution of difference but a mind numbing sameness since change is based in
prediction and continual change is predictably no change at all.
Ray Evans Harrell
New York City
