Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 11:42 am
Hmmm, culture of death. Sounds 70s-ish. Weren't the left camps obsessed with death that time? Or was the exact terminology cult of death, though I wasn't around then? Henri, I think humanity has experienced similar phenomena for the n-th time.
But I wonder what makes people being right in a wrong place with such a matter as literally bearing the importance of life and death. Could it be humanity's wonted resentment for its mortality, exacerbated by the recoginition that their pet offspirings like tech inventions and information tend to out-live their progenitors? Could it be "enlightened" man's desolate inability to receive salvation now that he prides in superceding G-d? Could it be a plot of those who do not stand their own individual deaths and opt for perishing in a general conflagration? Being right in a wrong place hardly contribute to the happiness of the rest of us. Wherever I see lies, destruction, self-conceit, despise at non-believers, scarecity and candour replacing intellect, I associate the people who applaud the circumstances not so much with being right as with being righteous.
Another problem with being right in a wrong place is that it is predictability in an environment where sharks abound. It makes a good shark's bait. Contamporary politics furnishes nice examples but yours sincerely is rather tired of discussing it.
Flam
But I wonder what makes people being right in a wrong place with such a matter as literally bearing the importance of life and death. Could it be humanity's wonted resentment for its mortality, exacerbated by the recoginition that their pet offspirings like tech inventions and information tend to out-live their progenitors? Could it be "enlightened" man's desolate inability to receive salvation now that he prides in superceding G-d? Could it be a plot of those who do not stand their own individual deaths and opt for perishing in a general conflagration? Being right in a wrong place hardly contribute to the happiness of the rest of us. Wherever I see lies, destruction, self-conceit, despise at non-believers, scarecity and candour replacing intellect, I associate the people who applaud the circumstances not so much with being right as with being righteous.
Another problem with being right in a wrong place is that it is predictability in an environment where sharks abound. It makes a good shark's bait. Contamporary politics furnishes nice examples but yours sincerely is rather tired of discussing it.
Flam