Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 18:41:21 +0000
From: "steve.devos" <steve.devos-AT-krokodile.co.uk>
Subject: Re: awakening from history


Hugh

The most religious country in the world is the USA - 93% of the US 
population by the most recent estimate profess a belief in God - so 
don't blame the rest of humanity for there irrational religious 
beliefs... The problem lies closer to home.

regards
steve



hbone wrote:

>MessageEric wrote:
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>My question back to you is this. Is such a psychoanalytical approach to
>history now completely outmoded or does it still have an unsuspected life of
>its own?  If you feel in your gut this approach is not valid, what would you
>then substitute in its place?
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>My answer is Yes, the psychoanalytical approach to history is outmoded, not
>valid.
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>It's influence, however, (unsuspected life) permeates the individual and
>collective memories of all us who read of postmodernity,  and will affect
>anything we substitute in its place.  We cannot resurrect the corpse of the
>psychoanalytical, but we cannot escape its affect on the here-and-now, the
>personal symbolic universes in which we "live", have our "being".
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>We can't escape the ideas of  Freud and Marx, nor should we.  We can address
>the world we live in and the relevance of those ideas to our personal vision
>of the future of humanity.  If we can only see that future through the words
>of post-modern writers, so be it.  If our concept of  social action is
>simply to re-iterate and advocate PM ideas of the past few decades, so be
>it.
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>However, for better or worse, the intellectual resources of 6 billion
>people, in about 200 separate nations, will determine the future...Most of
>these populations are religious in a sense that includes neither Freud nor
>Marx, nor PM philosophers.  U.S. military power over religious beliefs may
>be as successful as Israeli power over Palestinian beliefs, or it may not.
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>To be continued.
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>regards,
>Hugh
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