From: David Buchanan (DBuchanan@ClassicalRadio.org)
Date: Sun Oct 20 2002 - 17:33:19 BST
Darrell said:
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.
Pirsig: (page 254) "...and there's no way of ever knowing whether your own
view of yourself is just another distortion. Maybe all you ever see is
reflections. Maybe mirrors are all you ever get. First the mirrors of your
parents, then friends and teachers, then bosses and officials, priests and
ministers, and maybe writers and painters too. That's their job too, holding
up mirrors. But what controls all these mirrors is the culture: the Giant,
the gods; and if you run afoul of the culture it will start throwing up
reflections that try to destroy you, or it will withdraw the mirrors and try
to destroy you that way. Phaedrus could see how this celebrity could get to
be like some sort of narcosis of mirrors where you have to have more and
more supportive reflections just to stay satisfied. The mirrors take over
your life and soon you don't know WHO you are."
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