From: Peterfabriani@aol.com
Date: Sun Oct 20 2002 - 11:24:31 BST
In a message dated 10/20/02 2:40:02 AM GMT Daylight Time,
Oldehippie1947@aol.com writes:
> Jesus' teachings to love one another and to not judge others would undermine
> the power of the powers that be, the Pharisee. This is the power of social
> control Foucault is talking about in "Madness and Civilization," the power
> to control society. The first principle in this power of conformity is that
> you must judge others. To judge another human being's value as a human
> being is an act of violence. You cannot love another who you can
> potentially violate by judging them.
>
> Darrell
Hello Darrell,
I am new to the forum and i empathise with your post. But i have a problem,
and the problem is arte or excellence, or social quality as the MOQ may have
it. In the MOQ social quality is the organising force and this looks like
celebrity status. A celebrity may have high biological and intellectual value
also, and if so all the more arte. These are the rules of life's happy game,
and to my mind there is little room for a Jesus or a person who simply wishes
to be in harmony with the All. And i feel these later feeling are at odds
with their society and this leads to distress and pathological mental states,
castigation or death. So, if arte is high human quality, does that involve
judgement or should simple appreciation of the art of a good life suffice?
Maybe Jesus had exceptional arte? Maybe Jesus was a supreme work of art?
The message Jesus gave is so simple isn't it? It's so easy, but at odds with
aggression. Maybe that's why many have interpreted those words for their own
ends and with little regard for their beauty?
Peter.
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