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Tuesday, April 06, 2010
FROM THE SENSORY ORDER TO THE MORAL ORDER: BRIDGING HAYEK TO HAYEK (PART I)
I have a new scholarly article published in Nomoi, "FROM THE SENSORY ORDER TO THE MORAL ORDER: BRIDGING HAYEK TO HAYEK (PART I)" on pg. 3. The journal is in Spanish and English, but my article is in English.
What sensory "order" especially in the USA where mass produced ugliness is the all pervasive norm. Wall to wall junk "culture". Turn on your TV set. Check out Fox "news".
A "culture" which is now effectively ruled by the consumerist mind created by TV. A collective mind that is completely indifferent to the well-being of either human beings, and the planet altogether.
A "culture" which is effectively a combination of the scenarios predicted by both Huxley in Brave New World, and Orwell in 1984. The masses seduced by titty-taiment, while the permanent warfare state effectively rules everything.
And the "culture" at large thus systematically reduces everything to rubble.
Quite literally "amusing our-selves to death" (Postman)
This scenario was pictured in the recent Avatar film. The techno-barbarian invaders, having effectively "created" a dying planet, were COMPELLED by the "manifest destiny" of their power and control seeking cultural meme, to embark on one more imperialist conquest.
At a very basic level this film was about the "culture" of death versus the culture of life.
It was therefore interesting to see the entirely predictable GROUP-THINK "conservative" (especially those that presume to be "religious") response to this film---they all came out in support of the "culture" of death.
Did you even read the article? Not according to the comments here. I will say that socialist cultures produce far worse garbage -- and that it's absurd to argue that because a vast majority of stuff produced is junk (as has always been the case), that that is the fault of capitalism. The fact that so many are so rich so we can produce so many artists is both a blessing and a curse -- more people producing "art" means more garbage being produced; but more people producing means more great works are also being produced. If you have a complaint about the amount of garbage being prodiced, I suggest you look to our universities and their postmodernist, neo-Marxist, politically correct art and criticism. That's where the worst garbage eminates from.
5 comments:
Nice article, Troy. I enjoyed reading it.
Thanks. I guess you'll have to wait a few months for Part II, though.
I second Mr. Bate's sentiment.
What sensory "order" especially in the USA where mass produced ugliness is the all pervasive norm. Wall to wall junk "culture".
Turn on your TV set. Check out Fox "news".
A "culture" which is now effectively ruled by the consumerist mind created by TV. A collective mind that is completely indifferent to the well-being of either human beings, and the planet altogether.
A "culture" which is effectively a combination of the scenarios predicted by both Huxley in Brave New World, and Orwell in 1984.
The masses seduced by titty-taiment, while the permanent warfare state effectively rules everything.
And the "culture" at large thus systematically reduces everything to rubble.
Quite literally "amusing our-selves to death" (Postman)
This scenario was pictured in the recent Avatar film. The techno-barbarian invaders, having effectively "created" a dying planet, were COMPELLED by the "manifest destiny" of their power and control seeking cultural meme, to embark on one more imperialist conquest.
At a very basic level this film was about the "culture" of death versus the culture of life.
It was therefore interesting to see the entirely predictable GROUP-THINK "conservative" (especially those that presume to be "religious") response to this film---they all came out in support of the "culture" of death.
Did you even read the article? Not according to the comments here. I will say that socialist cultures produce far worse garbage -- and that it's absurd to argue that because a vast majority of stuff produced is junk (as has always been the case), that that is the fault of capitalism. The fact that so many are so rich so we can produce so many artists is both a blessing and a curse -- more people producing "art" means more garbage being produced; but more people producing means more great works are also being produced. If you have a complaint about the amount of garbage being prodiced, I suggest you look to our universities and their postmodernist, neo-Marxist, politically correct art and criticism. That's where the worst garbage eminates from.
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