FINTAN CLARIFIES INTELLECT v. SOCIETY
Donny>
>John Leonard once said that the first 200 years of American history >can be
seen as the gradual expansion of the "we" in "We the >people..." (This is
why when someone [Fintan] suggests that
>Social morality should re-dominate intellectual freedom/objectivity, I >git
a bit miffed because I see this as an attack on the ideals my >nation was
founded on.)
No, Donny, I said that before the FALL, intellect/ or rather mind
was the servant of all- ie society.
After the fall all is now muddied.
Now only love can save us.
Not Intellect, i'm afraid.
>Robinson Caruso on his
>island, building a hut and fire and snares to catch food...
Carusoe: The pinnacle of the intellectual enlightenment is of course
completely ALONE on a desert island. Ha, ha, ha.
Except for a slave of course.
Perfect metaphor for the society created by the enlightenment.
Intellect my a**.
>Now, before the spears start flying, I know that this is NOT
>exactly RMP's view. I've seen passages in LILA that clearly sugest >IntPoVs
are a kin to ego or mind or logic
Now you are starting to get it Donny.
>and even says that "going mad" is nothing more than leaving
>Western IntPoVs for non-Western views (a "crazy person" is one w/
>unreasonable view who can't be persuaded to change those views
So go back and read the posts of this "crazy" Irishman and
you will see.......Donny.....you will see.........
love
Fintan Mary Dunne
findunne@iol.ie
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