Re: Mandela cult and mass media mythopoesis

2013-12-11 Thread LizR
On 12 December 2013 13:28, meekerdb wrote: > "The party as such represents the point of view of a positive > Christianity without binding itself to any one particular > confession." > Adolf Hitler, in the Nazi manifesto: > Wow, some very nice quotes there, I didn't realise Nazism w

Re: Mandela cult and mass media mythopoesis

2013-12-11 Thread meekerdb
On 12/11/2013 4:14 PM, LizR wrote: On 12 December 2013 11:49, meekerdb mailto:meeke...@verizon.net>> wrote: On 12/11/2013 1:32 PM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: Whit episodic periods of massacres, genocides and other massive crimes, he would have added. I recommend you to add th

Re: Mandela cult and mass media mythopoesis

2013-12-11 Thread LizR
On 12 December 2013 11:49, meekerdb wrote: > On 12/11/2013 1:32 PM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: > >> Whit episodic periods of massacres, genocides and other massive >> crimes, he would have added. I recommend you to add this to your >> mantra. >> > > Yes, religious wars and genocides based on theolo

Re: Mandela cult and mass media mythopoesis

2013-12-11 Thread LizR
On 12 December 2013 08:47, meekerdb wrote: > "True, secular values can turn a civilization inside out. In > post-Christian Europe, entire nations have been plunged into endemic > health, skyrocketing education and hopelessly low rates of violent crime." > --- Austin Dacey, NY Times 3 Feb 2006

Re: Mandela cult and mass media mythopoesis

2013-12-11 Thread meekerdb
On 12/11/2013 1:32 PM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: Whit episodic periods of massacres, genocides and other massive crimes, he would have added. I recommend you to add this to your mantra. Yes, religious wars and genocides based on theology. That's why Dacey referred to "post-Christian" europe.

Re: Mandela cult and mass media mythopoesis

2013-12-11 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Whit episodic periods of massacres, genocides and other massive crimes, he would have added. I recommend you to add this to your mantra. these "little" inconveniences are what I was talking about in the last paragrah. But this is not the main point.. I recommend to read the article, that is the ke

Re: Mandela cult and mass media mythopoesis

2013-12-11 Thread meekerdb
On 12/11/2013 12:22 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: The author of the essay say, definitively, yes. The original article is here: It is long but it is worth reading, to see how the myths of modernity generate violence by unrealistic expectations. http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/1575/full "True,

Re: Mandela cult and mass media mythopoesis

2013-12-11 Thread Alberto G. Corona
The author of the essay say, definitively, yes. The original article is here: It is long but it is worth reading, to see how the myths of modernity generate violence by unrealistic expectations. http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/1575/full 2013/12/11, LizR : > Is this particular one destructive? >

Re: Mandela cult and mass media mythopoesis

2013-12-10 Thread LizR
Is this particular one destructive? On 10 December 2013 22:12, Alberto G. Corona wrote: > Mandela forgive me, but this is the consequence of an unordered > mythopoesis: the mythopoesis of the unrestricted will, that Voegelin >

Mandela cult and mass media mythopoesis

2013-12-10 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Mandela forgive me, but this is the consequence of an unordered mythopoesis: the mythopoesis of the unrestricted will, that Voegelin