It is time we had an interdisciplinary world. It is time we created a society where all levels of thinking and society can work together – so the individual psychologies can live together in a more
integrated society. Interdisciplinary thinking tries to promote environmentalism, capitalism, religion, heroic
individualism, and families simultaneously. Beauty, truth, and ethics are united.
Speaking of politics and culture, the recent Avatar film was/is a very apt parable for our times.
At a very basic level the film was about the techno-barbarian "culture" of death versus the culture of life as lived by the Navi.
The techno-barbarians had already "created" a dying planet, and because of the inevitable logic of their power and control seeking meme, they had to invade other places---just as power mad Europeans have ALWAYS done--eg:
The above image is featured in The Pentagon of Power by Lewis Mumford.
By contrast the culture of the Navi was based on a felt pyschic sense of how everything is inter-related, and how all beings, and the environment too, are involved in a Process of mutual relationships.
It was therefore very interesting to observe the entirely predictable right-wing group-think response to the film---especially by those who pretend to be religious.
They all came out very loudly in support of the techno-barbarian "culture" of death.
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Sounds like Lionel Tiger's off his meds.
Speaking of politics and culture, the recent Avatar film was/is a very apt parable for our times.
At a very basic level the film was about the techno-barbarian "culture" of death versus the culture of life as lived by the Navi.
The techno-barbarians had already "created" a dying planet, and because of the inevitable logic of their power and control seeking meme, they had to invade other places---just as power mad Europeans have ALWAYS done--eg:
www.dartmouth.edu/~spanmod/mural/panel/panel13.html
The above image is featured in The Pentagon of Power by Lewis Mumford.
By contrast the culture of the Navi was based on a felt pyschic sense of how everything is inter-related, and how all beings, and the environment too, are involved in a Process of mutual relationships.
It was therefore very interesting to observe the entirely predictable right-wing group-think response to the film---especially by those who pretend to be religious.
They all came out very loudly in support of the techno-barbarian "culture" of death.
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