Thursday, June 24, 2010

Politics and Culture

Special Evolutionary Issue of Politics and Culture. Exciting stuff!

2 comments:

Some Guy said...

Sounds like Lionel Tiger's off his meds.

Anonymous said...

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.