2021-02-21
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meta4 writes:
The historian and culture critic Morris Berman once opined, "An
idea is something you have; an ideology is something that has
you". While I'm unsure rampant narcissism, hyper-competition and
materialism as an end goal comprise an ideology they are seemingly
the defining attributes of American "culture" now and anything
that isn't an aid towards those ends simply isn't worth a second
thought.
gopher://sdf.org/0/users/mmeta4/Phlog/phlog-2021-02-21.txt
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This got me thinking of Harari's definition of Liberal Humanism
as a religion, which seems to reflect similar idea as the one
Berman calls ideology. You can read some of my thoughts on this
here:
gopher://sdf.org/0/users/undo/j045
meta4 speaks about bringing more holistic environmental and
larger scale humanism to people who are wedded with this
ideology of Liberal Humanism.
while there is a part of the green talk these days that seems
more authoritarian than I would like, the philosophy as a whole
seems to transcend the American cold war style humanism and the
Soviet cold war humanism. This brings me hope as it maps so
nicely to the idea that you will have to somehow bring opposing
views to a unity through dialogue. This sort of unity is not
actually that easy to find if you try to force it onto a
dialogue. The fact that it is here (if I am right) points to
a new time actually starting with environmental context taking
a more central position than could be allowed in the Liberal
Humanism.
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