Some issues raised in recent days gave rise to my journal entry:
Human Communities
It seems a fitting discussion for us.
I am a proponent of intelligent strategy and working to improve situations.
As you can see in my own work that's available on the Net - there is a counter-cultural procedure involved in what we do. I think of it this way. I do not act against culture - I create what I see as necessary. The fact there is opposition to my work in the culture at large is a tangential, not a central motivator for me.
My analysis of what I refer to as "mass-media mind control," for example, involves a study and explication - and not so much an attack.
Then, as for some of the general issues that are raised by my statements in the journal entry...
Here's the focus of my concern for the shibboleth known as "questioning authority." It is quite often done for the wrong reasons. The wrong reasons are egoistic and romantic notions of self-image and self-serving agendas. The hypocrisy involved in these sorts of rebellions are dangerously irresponsible.
I think the case of the French Revolution is a good one. Romanticism and its attendant egoisms very quickly became as cruel a cultural regime as the one overthrown.
I've always thought the play, "Marat/Sade," by Peter Weiss illuminated that landscape quite brilliantly.
In any event, let's explore these issues further - as they are being played out in our Forums, as well. You know, I tend to type in philosophical generalities - even when there are specific instances of things occurring.