Wednesday, October 15, 2003

The american psyche Posted here Wednesday, October 15, 2003 at 4:11:34 PM     overheard "The real symbolic question today is the nature of the two symbols of freedom and equality in the American psyche. For the moment we need to assume that we canít "have our cake and eat it too." In other words, the two visions of America ? the vision of freedom and the vision of equality - are paradoxical visions. Each has a truth but its truth cannot exist at the same time as the other truth." ********

Note on individualism. Posted here Wednesday, October 15, 2003 at 2:26:01 PM     Given that human beings are characteristically projectors of deeper human qualities either on to gods or heros, we can  see that idividualism is not a nutural stance: it tends to empower individuals with god pojected powers, and to de-divinize the surrounding natural envirnment and its forces. Thus theories of projection tend to support the indivdualist view (projections come from the psyche, rather than being intuitive perceptions of nature). Individualism is not objective: it is a belief system with consequences.   ********