The kindergarten of good and evil
Great stuff at Asian Times:
"It is a shibboleth that consciousness is social. One may have an oceanic experience of joining an ocean of humanity shouting "Heil Hitler!" at a rally, while charging the machine guns at the Somme, while singing hymns on Sunday morning (or Psalms on Saturday morning), or while watching the fireworks at a small-town celebration of July 4. All of these are social forms of consciousness, but they have radically different contents. One dissolves into the mass at a Nazi rally, but shines through the choir at a Christian service, because one feels loved as an individual, up close and personally. That is why (as I mentioned last week - America's special grace Americans love their country in a unique way, because they believe it was instituted to protect their God-given rights."
Read the rest here.
Thanks, David.
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