From: Erin Noonan (enoonan@kent.edu)
Date: Sun Oct 20 2002 - 18:50:43 BST
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>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."
what if this ONE is a recognition that all these
mirrors are you.
So if you see this one mirror you shouldn't judge
by recognizing that image in yourself.
If you identify yourelf as an "intellectual" then
you are setting the mirrors of social, biological, inorganic as enemies.
I think maybe you can avoid the not judging contradiction
by this: don't look at a mirror image and think you are
separate from it (i.e. don't think that image is not in you).
You CAN judge what images are better then others but if
you soley identify with certain images you are setting up
the enemy mirrors.
erin
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