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=> Re: "moral outrage".....say what?
| Re: "moral outrage".....say what? |
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Marcello
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This is John Kerry: "In a press conference Monday, Secretary of State John Kerry told reporters in a read statement, “What we saw in Syria last week should shock the conscience of the world. It defies any code of morality. Let me be clear: The indiscriminate slaughter of civilians, the killing of women and children and innocent bystanders by chemical weapons is a moral obscenity. By any standard, it is inexcusable and — despite the excuses and equivocations that some have manufactured — it is undeniable.” -- As Gore Vidal said, this is the United States of Amnesia. The fast-paced consumer society within whom specialists in psychology, experts on addiction, behaviorists, and well-funded group of scientists gather to cure diseases? No! They study the human brain, perform experiments on mice and prisoners (look up MK-Ultra) to find ways and means to instill a second nature in the consumer. An artificial need mechanism -- unlike the natural need for water, food, sex -- this second-nature embedded within the psyche's id, super ego, and ego confronting the Reality Prinicple: the I want sex and I want it now; in short, instant gratification, but I can't get sex now, so I will settle for porn, or I'll buy an expensive car, or I'll buy a gun and express how free I am, goddammit! This is a concept called Repressive desublimation, "a term first coined by philosopher and sociologist Herbert Marcuse in his work One-Dimensional Man that refers to the way - in his words - in advanced capitalism “sexuality is liberated (or rather liberalized) in socially constructive forms”[1] so as to serve, rather than to challenge, forms of social control. Rather than acting against the social order (as the repressive hypothesis would suggest),[2] sexual liberation was thus co-opted to support the repressive order, through the undoing of sublimations and the release of pleasure in socially approved forms. By offering instantaneous, rather than mediated gratifications,[3] repressive desublimation was considered by Marcuse to remove the energies otherwise available for a social critique; and thus to function as a conservative force under the guise of liberation." I suggest the same may apply to the political sphere, after all if we change "sexual liberation" with "political liberation", the line of thinking follows as such: "Rather than acting against the social order (as the repressive hypothesis would suggest),[2] 'POLITICAL'(mine) liberation was thus co-opted to support the repressive order, through the undoing of sublimations and the release of pleasure in socially approved forms." "Release of pleasure in socially approved forms" is initially a Freudian concept of Sublimation. To navigate the libido (id) to produce culturally acceptable behavior and concepts. Anyway, am I only making sense to myself... anyone? --------------------- |
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