re. death -- different vectors, this is not the one in your piece!! --- Haven't read your blog for a long time, and read this passage this morning, by someone i just heard of last week: (Alistair McIntosh in Soil and Soul: People Versus Corporate Power ...partly about internal colonization of Scotland by England). He's writing about and quoting Erich Fromm; describing colonization/western (non)culture:
"We are looking at a syndrome, he (Erich Fromm) wrote, of ..passionate attraction to all that is dead, decayed...the passion to transform all that is alive into something unalive; to destroy for the sake of destruction; the exclusive interest in all that is purely mechanical (italicized); it is the passion to tear apart living structures." Next para: "Fromm and the Frankfurt School of which he was a part saw necrophilia as the bottom line of domination, the driving dynamic that destroys both community and environment. It converts, he says the 'world of life' into non-life', persons have become non-persons, a world of death."
So -- fear, or fascination -- of/with death in western economy? Or both? i keep hearing from Christians that in death we will find the real life worth having. And yet they kill people to prevent themselves from being killed. ???
My observation has been that people who hurt others, when they inflict observable - in the other's body or expression, or in their own perception of the other's experience - pain in an other .....feel evidence that they exist, and that is their implicit purpose.
Sorry for rambling. Just thot it notable coming across your and McIntosh's words re. death today.
thank you for this comment. this is fascinating. i think both the Christians who think that with death comes the real life and those who treat death (in and of itself versus violence and suffering) as what destroys life are missing that life and death are part of a cycle, one begets the other.
Agree. Separative thinking par excellence, literally the bane (in both early and later meanings of the word) of our existence...a dead end...if we don't turn around. (tried to shake these puns but they stuck) Miigwech merci.
re. death -- different vectors, this is not the one in your piece!! --- Haven't read your blog for a long time, and read this passage this morning, by someone i just heard of last week: (Alistair McIntosh in Soil and Soul: People Versus Corporate Power ...partly about internal colonization of Scotland by England). He's writing about and quoting Erich Fromm; describing colonization/western (non)culture:
"We are looking at a syndrome, he (Erich Fromm) wrote, of ..passionate attraction to all that is dead, decayed...the passion to transform all that is alive into something unalive; to destroy for the sake of destruction; the exclusive interest in all that is purely mechanical (italicized); it is the passion to tear apart living structures." Next para: "Fromm and the Frankfurt School of which he was a part saw necrophilia as the bottom line of domination, the driving dynamic that destroys both community and environment. It converts, he says the 'world of life' into non-life', persons have become non-persons, a world of death."
So -- fear, or fascination -- of/with death in western economy? Or both? i keep hearing from Christians that in death we will find the real life worth having. And yet they kill people to prevent themselves from being killed. ???
My observation has been that people who hurt others, when they inflict observable - in the other's body or expression, or in their own perception of the other's experience - pain in an other .....feel evidence that they exist, and that is their implicit purpose.
Sorry for rambling. Just thot it notable coming across your and McIntosh's words re. death today.
I like hearing to your voice.
Hope you are well.
thank you for this comment. this is fascinating. i think both the Christians who think that with death comes the real life and those who treat death (in and of itself versus violence and suffering) as what destroys life are missing that life and death are part of a cycle, one begets the other.
Agree. Separative thinking par excellence, literally the bane (in both early and later meanings of the word) of our existence...a dead end...if we don't turn around. (tried to shake these puns but they stuck) Miigwech merci.