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enlightenment versus socialism

Mayadharma
28-01-2005, 16:25
on a tiny island a lot of people devoted their culture to meditation, fasting and pursuit of mystical states of consciousness. this was the foregone conclusion isn a sort of experiment to find a way to heal the world's psychic body via contemplation of history -- naturally it had to take place in the asian pacific. we were called the Commonwealth of terran individualists: we communicated with the world via our one donated computer -- all was not total bliss but things were all right. the diea was that we were pacifistic philosophers. but when the giant wave came last month we were all swept away.

a few strong swimmers remain.


nonetheless -- we understand nationalism and slavery and where they came from and why. and perhaps here in the new region of Mayadharma where we understand that even human interpretation of the truth of cosmic law can be subject to error and the less than uttely whole lenses that are human eyes -- that there is need to pause for reflection. enlightenment is a thing to be shared, before, during and after times of crisis.

the daoist poets and mystics have had many sayings attributed to them -- one is 'the fools admire what the wise cultivate.' sometimes it can be see that the fools despise what the wise cultivate and would share with others. and finally there is the old saying 'no fools, no fun.'

but we understand -- mystics and historians understand the role of the nationalist and the socialist in world history -i in asia of ancient.

hi. please try to think of me less as a japanese name intruding and more as a political theorist. it strikes me that the thinking in political science has been sluggish and not original -- and that the old ideas have been beaten like the proverbial dead horses and that little new is coming out.

my own theories are stimulated in part by the french theoretician gilles deleuze, author of 'CAPITALISM AND SCHIZOPHRENIA'

his idea was that there is a insanity that capitalism produces.

people are forced to do work from birth that is far away from what they could do if they were doing their 'dream job' -- what they would naturally be best at. the french philosopher deleuze picked up on this.

the idea is that there is a true bliss that each person has -- but the capitalist system forces people from almost birth to reject that and start struggling to do whatever they can to build what will make ends meet.

this is just an idea! but it is an idea. suppose we consider the idea OF ideas -- what plato and his fellow philosophers called metaphysics, or the sufis called thinking about thinking, or learning to know.


if we learn to rethink the old philosophies that have promised us the moon but failed to bring us the balanced cultural realities we all really long for...perhaps by learning to look at the philosophies and deconstruct them with our minds, desiring to know what is true and what would be best for all -- we can make -- at this crucial time in his sort -- headway into the delicate balance of economic necessity and cultural life that has been made since the time of Marx and his contribution to our life?