(Bad) Narcissism and the Net
I've just made a few entries in my "profile." I feel more friggen unique already.
This will be an "anti-war" blog by the way - anti-war, anti-plutocracy, pro-love, pro-life (this will require some explanation), pro-democracy, pro-individual, pro-collective, pro-choice, pro-responsibility, pro-gay-abandon...it will be all of these things.
And the one thing that most holds us back from achieving my vision of utopia is narcissism. At every turn the way has been paved for us to continue thinking of very little beyond our own individual concerns. It will not do.
Narcissism in the form of nationalism (or "patriotism") is, in the broadest view, the worst of our problems. We must get it into our heads that we are humans - members of a species - first and foremost, not members of this or that particular nation. Whether it be the USA, the nation of Islam, or Eritrea.
Running a close second, paradoxically, is our species chauvenism - if there wasn't a Big-Oil-lackey war-monger in the White House, species chauvenism would take out top spot (think here of the Clinton years). We continue to behave as if God personally gave us this earth to do with as we wish and that, furthermore, we aren't well on the way to destroying it and us as we know it and us (ahem). Will not do!
And blogging, as far as I can see, is one of the new ways created to allow the masses to fiddle, in a very self-absorbed way, while the earth burns.
P.S. By "pro-life" I mean, for example, that it is ethically more important to save the life of here-and-now humans - a starving child in Africa, a peaceloving family in Iraq - than it is to save the life of yet-to-be humans that haven't yet made it out of the womb. By "pro-life" I mean that the killing of life should be minimised, that, for example, it is absurdly hypocritical to be both pro-war and anti-abortion. Absurdly so.
This will be an "anti-war" blog by the way - anti-war, anti-plutocracy, pro-love, pro-life (this will require some explanation), pro-democracy, pro-individual, pro-collective, pro-choice, pro-responsibility, pro-gay-abandon...it will be all of these things.
And the one thing that most holds us back from achieving my vision of utopia is narcissism. At every turn the way has been paved for us to continue thinking of very little beyond our own individual concerns. It will not do.
Narcissism in the form of nationalism (or "patriotism") is, in the broadest view, the worst of our problems. We must get it into our heads that we are humans - members of a species - first and foremost, not members of this or that particular nation. Whether it be the USA, the nation of Islam, or Eritrea.
Running a close second, paradoxically, is our species chauvenism - if there wasn't a Big-Oil-lackey war-monger in the White House, species chauvenism would take out top spot (think here of the Clinton years). We continue to behave as if God personally gave us this earth to do with as we wish and that, furthermore, we aren't well on the way to destroying it and us as we know it and us (ahem). Will not do!
And blogging, as far as I can see, is one of the new ways created to allow the masses to fiddle, in a very self-absorbed way, while the earth burns.
P.S. By "pro-life" I mean, for example, that it is ethically more important to save the life of here-and-now humans - a starving child in Africa, a peaceloving family in Iraq - than it is to save the life of yet-to-be humans that haven't yet made it out of the womb. By "pro-life" I mean that the killing of life should be minimised, that, for example, it is absurdly hypocritical to be both pro-war and anti-abortion. Absurdly so.
posted by Erosoplier at 11:27 AM
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