From: David Buchanan (DBuchanan@ClassicalRadio.org)
Date: Sun Dec 14 2003 - 19:44:25 GMT
Ian, David and all:
Ian wrote:
Interesting stuff DMB, but isn't this statement a bit inconsistent?
"It has lots to do with the tendency of (SOM) intellectuals to be be
dismissive or even openly hostile to traditional morallity, religion
and the transcendental realm." I tend to associate christian evangelism with
traditional US SOMists. Perhaps I'm mixing up your labels. Perhaps by SOM
Intellectuals you just mean liberals.
dmb replies:
I don't see how we can rightly associate christian evangelism with SOM. In
fact, what I'm saying is that SOM is at least partly responsible for causing
the various reactionary movements. I put SOM in parenthetically because it
is not intellectuals per se, but more specifically the kind of secular
materialism that so angers traditionalists. The MOQ is supposed to solve the
problems that lead intellectuals to conclude that social level values can be
dismissed as stupid and oppressive. By contrast, the MOQ says that social
level values should be dusted off and re-examined to determine which ones
are not only acceptable, but necessary. Basically, the idea here is that it
is only natural that social and intellectual values should sometimes come
into conflict, but the amoral scientific materialism that dominates the
secular Western worldview has made that conflict more intense that it needs
to be, that SOM has given rise to reactionary movements of all kinds and
that this is what the rise of fascism and fundamentalism is all about.
Traditonalists feel very, very threatened by secular culture and there are
real reasons for that.
Does that make sense?
Thanks,
dmb
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