Immanuel Kant has called this sensus communis. One aspect of sensus communis is to learn about different standpoints of other people and take them into an account when thinking about our common living in the world. Hannah Arendt translated it as an enlarged mentality. What is, of course, interesting is another aspect of our Western heritage and that is the idea of the individual. There are (simplifying) two versions - one, the Anglo-Saxon, which is now the building block of the Western worldview, and that is built on the idea of an atomistic individual, traced to Hobbes and Locke. But we also have another version of the individual, and that is the social individual, which is could be argued e corporate also the idea to “embrace collective and conservative beliefs – holding that the good of the many outweighs the interest of the one”. This one can be traced to Hugo Grotius. It is not to say that these days your analysis is not correct. It is! It is to remind us that the history of ideas is not so simple and the basic plank of the so-called “Western values” was not always individualistic in the sense of a free floating atom.
Scott-Ritter... I do not agree with you on everything, but since you came out and told the tale of W and the WMD's, I have been a fan. Watching you on ask the inspector speaking about the Russian Samovar incident, and your reference to being Swatted, how appalling. Our country has lost its hinge pins, the doors are tumbling, we are in immense trouble... keep up the great work. Thank you.
Thanks, Kevin, for your insight into the worldviews of others. I work with immigrants, and it's by sitting down and speaking with an individual from another culture that you truly see how isolated and egocentric most Americans are. The questions that immigrants sometime ask are revealing as to where we need to start to make some drastic changes, IMO. Peace all!
Binaries are bullshit. Dichotomy is not an anthropic reality but path of least resistance (e.g. conformity, rules, peer pressure, threats, fear, and other external pressures) can make it a behavioral one. Refuse both binaries and dichotomy! We're better than that.
Good article. I would add that languages spoken by individuals add to the perceptions of their "snow globes". The more "snow globes" you get to look into the better.
According to the historical record and contemporary data, it is impossible to effectively govern, police and defend a multicultural multiracial multireligious multidegeneracy society. Everything is going as planned, it is a planned collapse. Nationalism, correctly understood and presented, is a key to world peace and a cleaner natural environment 🕊️❤️🙏
@ Cultural Identity and Worldviews! Im watching the Sun. morning news shows .. . and I think the Democrats and Republicans are eating each other over TS/SCI classified documents. Live! Ugly Raw Cannibalism.
As the ruler of a small country in the dark heart of Appalachia, ground zero in America's 'war on poverty', I know well the 'cultural identity' of My peoples. (see also @ Beverly Hillbillies). Then one day I was shooting at some food and up through the ground came a bubbling crude. So I loaded up the truck and moved to the Big Apple - Manhattan: the cultural nerve centre of the Universe - movie stars, swimming pools and everything!
I am Spartacus.
Nowadays, my views have necessarily expanded to include Europe, Asia, Russia, Ukraine and Tolstoy's War and Peace. A social being who represents the 'highest reality in the intellectual and moral order that we can know by observation - I mean society . .. In so far as he belongs to society, the individual transcends himself, both when he thinks and when he acts.' ~ noted French cultural anthropologist Emile Durkheim
* I came here this morning fully prepared and willing to tear my fav Weapos Inspector a new one concerning Scott's recent vapidly outrageous comments about 9/11 'conspiracy theories' @ Ask the Inspector .. . and 'snatch the pebble from his hand' (h/t Kung Fu).
The U.S. ***response*** to the events of 9/11 - a global war on 'terror' (gwot) - is no G-damn 'conspiracy theory'.
Briefly, 15 of the 19 'bad guys' were Saudi nationals; U.S. invaded Afghanistan to 'get' mastermind bad guy OBL, another Saudi national, later 2011 killed in Pakistan; <B>anybody</B> who believes the much revised NIST report on Bldg. #7 - collapse due to single column (#78) failure due to debris/office furniture fire - brought that building down don't know what they're talking about.
p.s. I have Major issues/concerns with the much-redacted 9/11 Congressional Report as well.
"Reputation, Reputation, Reputation! O' I have lost my reputation and what remains is bestial"
I don't think the US empire's actions are determined by a Western worldview of liberalism. That's just a smokescreen, to fool people too busy or too emotionally infantile to think things through. They really just want to enforce their control over the world, and will do anything they can devise to further that goal. If they pretend to care about LBGTQ+, it's for that reason alone: to motivate a certain segment of the populace in a certain way. But they clearly don't care about any "values" in and of themselves. Certainly not as shown in their actions.
"And now there are only two ways out: to slide into a world war and a nuclear conflict, or to start the process of detente again, for which it is necessary to take into account the interests of all parties," he said. "But for this, it is necessary to recognize politically that Russia has interests, that they must be taken into account in the construction of a new detente."
"And most importantly, play honestly, do not deceive anyone, do not let in fog and do not try to make money on someone else's blood," Medvedchuk added. "But if the world political system is not capable of elementary decency, blinded by pride and its own mercantile interests, then even more difficult times await us."
*Medvedchuk's Ukrainian citizenship has been revoked.
Immanuel Kant has called this sensus communis. One aspect of sensus communis is to learn about different standpoints of other people and take them into an account when thinking about our common living in the world. Hannah Arendt translated it as an enlarged mentality. What is, of course, interesting is another aspect of our Western heritage and that is the idea of the individual. There are (simplifying) two versions - one, the Anglo-Saxon, which is now the building block of the Western worldview, and that is built on the idea of an atomistic individual, traced to Hobbes and Locke. But we also have another version of the individual, and that is the social individual, which is could be argued e corporate also the idea to “embrace collective and conservative beliefs – holding that the good of the many outweighs the interest of the one”. This one can be traced to Hugo Grotius. It is not to say that these days your analysis is not correct. It is! It is to remind us that the history of ideas is not so simple and the basic plank of the so-called “Western values” was not always individualistic in the sense of a free floating atom.
Scott-Ritter... I do not agree with you on everything, but since you came out and told the tale of W and the WMD's, I have been a fan. Watching you on ask the inspector speaking about the Russian Samovar incident, and your reference to being Swatted, how appalling. Our country has lost its hinge pins, the doors are tumbling, we are in immense trouble... keep up the great work. Thank you.
Thanks, Kevin, for your insight into the worldviews of others. I work with immigrants, and it's by sitting down and speaking with an individual from another culture that you truly see how isolated and egocentric most Americans are. The questions that immigrants sometime ask are revealing as to where we need to start to make some drastic changes, IMO. Peace all!
We need not just to put this snow globe down Kevin. We must break it in small pieces.
Frederick Nietzsche and Carl Jung have both said the same thing.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0959354316645411
Binaries are bullshit. Dichotomy is not an anthropic reality but path of least resistance (e.g. conformity, rules, peer pressure, threats, fear, and other external pressures) can make it a behavioral one. Refuse both binaries and dichotomy! We're better than that.
Good article. I would add that languages spoken by individuals add to the perceptions of their "snow globes". The more "snow globes" you get to look into the better.
According to the historical record and contemporary data, it is impossible to effectively govern, police and defend a multicultural multiracial multireligious multidegeneracy society. Everything is going as planned, it is a planned collapse. Nationalism, correctly understood and presented, is a key to world peace and a cleaner natural environment 🕊️❤️🙏
Dear Kevin,
@ Cultural Identity and Worldviews! Im watching the Sun. morning news shows .. . and I think the Democrats and Republicans are eating each other over TS/SCI classified documents. Live! Ugly Raw Cannibalism.
As the ruler of a small country in the dark heart of Appalachia, ground zero in America's 'war on poverty', I know well the 'cultural identity' of My peoples. (see also @ Beverly Hillbillies). Then one day I was shooting at some food and up through the ground came a bubbling crude. So I loaded up the truck and moved to the Big Apple - Manhattan: the cultural nerve centre of the Universe - movie stars, swimming pools and everything!
I am Spartacus.
Nowadays, my views have necessarily expanded to include Europe, Asia, Russia, Ukraine and Tolstoy's War and Peace. A social being who represents the 'highest reality in the intellectual and moral order that we can know by observation - I mean society . .. In so far as he belongs to society, the individual transcends himself, both when he thinks and when he acts.' ~ noted French cultural anthropologist Emile Durkheim
* I came here this morning fully prepared and willing to tear my fav Weapos Inspector a new one concerning Scott's recent vapidly outrageous comments about 9/11 'conspiracy theories' @ Ask the Inspector .. . and 'snatch the pebble from his hand' (h/t Kung Fu).
The U.S. ***response*** to the events of 9/11 - a global war on 'terror' (gwot) - is no G-damn 'conspiracy theory'.
Briefly, 15 of the 19 'bad guys' were Saudi nationals; U.S. invaded Afghanistan to 'get' mastermind bad guy OBL, another Saudi national, later 2011 killed in Pakistan; <B>anybody</B> who believes the much revised NIST report on Bldg. #7 - collapse due to single column (#78) failure due to debris/office furniture fire - brought that building down don't know what they're talking about.
p.s. I have Major issues/concerns with the much-redacted 9/11 Congressional Report as well.
"Reputation, Reputation, Reputation! O' I have lost my reputation and what remains is bestial"
https://youtu.be/U17CGL-EW3o
Great article. We Western people better learn quick. Great documentary series East Meets West helped me see how little I know. Watched it a few times.
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1789687041403147&set=gm.5279346108832540&idorvanity=436083526492180
When did zionism replace the patriotism of the anglo saxon cultural dominance of the west that you refer to in your article? https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=2117982315078445&set=a.120948924781804
I don't think the US empire's actions are determined by a Western worldview of liberalism. That's just a smokescreen, to fool people too busy or too emotionally infantile to think things through. They really just want to enforce their control over the world, and will do anything they can devise to further that goal. If they pretend to care about LBGTQ+, it's for that reason alone: to motivate a certain segment of the populace in a certain way. But they clearly don't care about any "values" in and of themselves. Certainly not as shown in their actions.
We all have something different in common.
"And now there are only two ways out: to slide into a world war and a nuclear conflict, or to start the process of detente again, for which it is necessary to take into account the interests of all parties," he said. "But for this, it is necessary to recognize politically that Russia has interests, that they must be taken into account in the construction of a new detente."
"And most importantly, play honestly, do not deceive anyone, do not let in fog and do not try to make money on someone else's blood," Medvedchuk added. "But if the world political system is not capable of elementary decency, blinded by pride and its own mercantile interests, then even more difficult times await us."
*Medvedchuk's Ukrainian citizenship has been revoked.