John and Sam,
The false drama of the self is the biggest problem for
marriage and the social. In America, the divorce rate
is so high because people marry codependently. That
is, they marry the "imago" of their parents, a mix of
qualities that reflects their parents. Human are
mammals and as mammals we have "love strategies." We
develop behaviors to extract love from the environment
because mammals are born without egg shell and so
evolutionarily mammals developed (all this happens in
the limbic brain The General Theory of Love, Lewis,
etc). The brain LEARNS to extract love from the
parents and their behaviors. It's just unconscious
mammalian behavior. So, I personally don't like
"intersubjective" issues because it feeds into this
natural instinct of the mammal (again John, this is
what I hate about New Age universalism). What is the
choice? We have to become "overmen", "beyond men",
"beyond mammal". We have to become better and more
evil. And what does that mean? We have to fight
against our ARBITRARY definitions of LOVE that we
learned as a child. That is what "become more evil"
means. Our definitions of LOVE are arbitrary because
they are UNIQUE to each and everyone of us. To violate
them seems wrong. BUT it's not wrong because they are
particular to our parents, family, etc. We have to
learn to become OBJECTIVE about ourselves. So there
are NO universal laws at all. And if they say there
are they're selling you a twin tower.
What's an example? I'd have to set up a language game
to explain one. But Pirsig has a language game and
it's called Lila. You have to read Pirsig in a post
modern way: he the author is part of the story. So
John I think he is up to date on language games
because he is doing it the right way by "showing" it.
The only rules are his rules and he shows those rules.
But as Wittgenstein says he defines what rules can be
defined and shows what rules that can be shown. He is
walking Occam's razor, and it seems you want more to
the tale than there is.
End of the show,
Angus
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