> [Arlo]
> ...Beyond this, the sum total of collective
knowledge
> gravitates towards certain
> "themes". Jung referred to these as "archetypes".
> Campbell as the "monomyth".
> Dawkins as "memes". These are themes and patterns we
> internalize often without
> being consciously aware of doing so. Are they
> universal? Perhaps as the human...
Arlo, I like it.
This is, believe it or not, the whole probing
involved in my question: Who defines a robber?
Navajo: raiders or robbers? survivalists or mad
killers? They took what they needed to survive off of
those that had. I'm pretty sure those the Navajo
raided saw the Navajo as bad people. Of course,
defining who is robbing who can gestalt shift the
whole complexity as to who is a robber. China is
benefiting from the vast raw resources of Tibet, as
China rewrote history, which many now view to be a
false rewriting, for China claimed since about 1904
that Tibet was part of China, a lost child of the
motherland. The Amerindians still to this day, a
little more than a hundred years is not very long ago,
what, two - three generations distant as to their
still fought sovernity. And what does this sovernity
even mean? What identity is present, yet, not fully
defined? What freedoms do a culture provide,
persuade, and trigger individuals to be? To put what
Krimel recently mentioned into this perspective, a
robber could be potato where another says potatoe. As
I included that Star Trek advocates a planet that has
given up $ gains for humanities gain. So, would a
Star Trek generation, in this light, view the current
cultural drives (what you Arlo call Mercantilism), not
just in the U.S., but China and other countries, as
robbery? Is this intellectual evolution? Is this
defining what is moral what has been introduced here
before as an ever-defining self, and this small self
is defined as a inorganic, organic, societal, and
intellectual pattern, where the big self is dynamic.
This pivotal value of small and big self - what is
that? And as I've said before, this is the enduring
question mark that is answered here and now, but also,
in time, redefined where history is seen as the best
it could be at that moment and the present is the best
it can be at its' moment. The two cannot judge each
other due to change.
What do you think?
woods,
SA
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