Thursday 7 July 2011

Liberalism is not radicalism and never will be

http://www.lexido.com/EBOOK_TEXTS/THUS_SPOKE_ZARATHUSTRA_.aspx?S=57

I think this relates to lizard brain thinking. This aspect of the mind defines belongingness versus outsiderness in terms of social norms and rituals. That mean that when one feels that one 'belongs'--i.e. when one feel justified -- one is probably employing mental mechanisms that project a state of being culpable onto outsiders (those who do not conform to the mores that make one feel justified and holy). Liberals are as guilty of this as anyone else, just in different ways. That's why I don't see liberalism as particularly useful or "radical". Rather, they are involved in what Nietzsche calls "moving the swamps" -- transferring their concept of evil from one place to another. That's about it in many cases.

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