I've worked on the idea of cults and society again because the ideas in the post yesterday were good but too long, too many and too ambitious. I hope this helps.
A freely chosen response from an individual's conscience implies a mature human being. THIS concept is not common in our societies today. What our societies acknowledge is that at 18, an individual is responsible for his actions but by the tremendous abuses of people way beyond that age, we can see that age is not a measure to maturity, conscience or consciousness. A child that screams when abused is much more conscious than a man that obeys when dominated by the hierarchic authoritarian institution that exploits him psychologically and economically. THAT DEFINES CULT behaviour. But that behavior is not ONLY common in cults: in cults it is ABSOLUTELY MASTERED; it is common in the average institution of both capitalism and communism based on economic or political power. POWER of some over others is the cause of the inhumanity. POWER: that abstract quality that conditions each and every one of our relationships. Economic, political, emotional, sexual, intellectual POWER over each other. "If you are not willing to submit we are not willing to embrace you" We have made "SUBMISSION" the condition for love making our selves INHUMAN. Sexual submission is what Robert wanted from the boys and the submission of each member's "being" what he wanted from the members. At least bosses in industries only demand physical submission, work force, but in doing so they rendered the human being incapable of not submitting emotionally and intellectually to dictators and gurus.
What is ABSOLUTELY MASTERED in cults is the WILLINGNESS of the average human being of our times to submit to psychological and economical slavery so that he can participate in the community. It is the answer of a people who are looking for "meaning" in their lives. When "work" became "the job", human beings disconnected from meaning and community in the practice of their work. When what a man does has no meaning for his community, when the money he produces is the only issue involved, the “meaning” is lost. The lack of connectedness between his life and other people's stunts culture and develops a subculture or infra-culture that acts against both the individual and the community.
We are sick people and many have been saying so for a long time. The "ideal" "professional" of today is a man without feelings. The T.V. hero is a man without family: a killer without emotions but so called ideals designed to defend the status quo. Cult members search in the cult for the community that society has failed to offer.
It's in society that religion, politics and economy have separated and severed the inner coherence of the individual as powerfully as the external incoherence. Man's economic life has disconnected from man's emotional and intellectual life just like art has disconnected from science, science from economy, economy from religion and politics, which have become subordinate to the power of the economically privileged. The government is a corrupt manipulator of politics for the benefit of a few just like the guru is a corrupt manipulator of religion for his own benefit. The structure, the mental, emotional and instinctive conditioning is already in place long before people join the cult.
The external organisation of our societies has been sculpting the internal schizofrenia of its individuals. There is no inner coherence in our inner world because there is no external coherence in the outside world in which we grow up. “People” “other human beings” have become our enemies: “the idiots on my road”, the noisy neighbours, the undesirable tourists, vandals, hooligans, criminals. We live in fear of each other getting together in clubs, clans, cults, in which we reconstruct the incoherence that we received from society with faithful precision, perfecting the incoherence in the systematic abuses of the Cult: The microcosmic image of the inhumanity of today’s subculture.
I've worked on the idea of cults and society again because the ideas in the post yesterday were good but too long, too many and too ambitious. I hope this helps.
A freely chosen response from an individual's conscience implies a mature human being. THIS concept is not common in our societies today. What our societies acknowledge is that at 18, an individual is responsible for his actions but by the tremendous abuses of people way beyond that age, we can see that age is not a measure to maturity, conscience or consciousness. A child that screams when abused is much more conscious than a man that obeys when dominated by the hierarchic authoritarian institution that exploits him psychologically and economically. THAT DEFINES CULT behaviour. But that behavior is not ONLY common in cults: in cults it is ABSOLUTELY MASTERED; it is common in the average institution of both capitalism and communism based on economic or political power. POWER of some over others is the cause of the inhumanity. POWER: that abstract quality that conditions each and every one of our relationships. Economic, political, emotional, sexual, intellectual POWER over each other. "If you are not willing to submit we are not willing to embrace you" We have made "SUBMISSION" the condition for love making our selves INHUMAN. Sexual submission is what Robert wanted from the boys and the submission of each member's "being" what he wanted from the members. At least bosses in industries only demand physical submission, work force, but in doing so they rendered the human being incapable of not submitting emotionally and intellectually to dictators and gurus.
What is ABSOLUTELY MASTERED in cults is the WILLINGNESS of the average human being of our times to submit to psychological and economical slavery so that he can participate in the community. It is the answer of a people who are looking for "meaning" in their lives. When "work" became "the job", human beings disconnected from meaning and community in the practice of their work. When what a man does has no meaning for his community, when the money he produces is the only issue involved, the “meaning” is lost. The lack of connectedness between his life and other people's stunts culture and develops a subculture or infra-culture that acts against both the individual and the community.
We are sick people and many have been saying so for a long time. The "ideal" "professional" of today is a man without feelings. The T.V. hero is a man without family: a killer without emotions but so called ideals designed to defend the status quo. Cult members search in the cult for the community that society has failed to offer.
It's in society that religion, politics and economy have separated and severed the inner coherence of the individual as powerfully as the external incoherence. Man's economic life has disconnected from man's emotional and intellectual life just like art has disconnected from science, science from economy, economy from religion and politics, which have become subordinate to the power of the economically privileged. The government is a corrupt manipulator of politics for the benefit of a few just like the guru is a corrupt manipulator of religion for his own benefit. The structure, the mental, emotional and instinctive conditioning is already in place long before people join the cult.
The external organisation of our societies has been sculpting the internal schizofrenia of its individuals. There is no inner coherence in our inner world because there is no external coherence in the outside world in which we grow up. “People” “other human beings” have become our enemies: “the idiots on my road”, the noisy neighbours, the undesirable tourists, vandals, hooligans, criminals. We live in fear of each other getting together in clubs, clans, cults, in which we reconstruct the incoherence that we received from society with faithful precision, perfecting the incoherence in the systematic abuses of the Cult: The microcosmic image of the inhumanity of today’s subculture.
My comment:
ReplyDeleteThe ongoing "FOF discussion" is a nonsense discussion because there is NO sincere DISCUSSION!
Most of the participants are former teacher's pets (Bob's pets) and they are caressing each other and hunting and banning the thruth.
ACTING is an ugly word for them because they swim in that intellectual/spiritual Burton inheritance and they are really not willing to leave it or to act against the crimes of the FOF.
Inventing every day feeble excuses for their famous FOF discussion to ruminate the relationship of dependence again and again!