copperhound12 said:Don't just look at the "surface"; dive deep, all the way to the bottom... into your own "oceans"...(?)
This isn't "digging through garbage" at all, it's something else entirely...☕
The obsession with seeking "law and order" (instead of life and structure) and more severe punishments for criminals, along with the fixation on violence and destructiveness among certain "revolutionaries," are merely further examples of the powerful allure of necrophilia in today's world. We need to create conditions where the development of the human being—that unfinished and incomplete creature, unique in nature—is considered the most important goal of all social structures. True freedom and independence, and an end to all forms of exploitative power, are the prerequisites for igniting a love for life, which alone can defeat the love of death. (E. Fromm, The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness, Part II)
Believe it or not, I don't see any traces of necrophilia or necrophiliac tendencies there (if you can even find a better way to put it).
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copperhound12 said:Don't just look at the "surface"; dive deep, all the way to the bottom... into your own "oceans"...(?)
This isn't "digging through garbage" at all, it's something else entirely...☕
The obsession with seeking "law and order" (instead of life and structure) and more severe punishments for criminals, along with the fixation on violence and destructiveness among certain "revolutionaries," are merely further examples of the powerful allure of necrophilia in today's world. We need to create conditions where the development of the human being—that unfinished and incomplete creature, unique in nature—is considered the most important goal of all social structures. True freedom and independence, and an end to all forms of exploitative power, are the prerequisites for igniting a love for life, which alone can defeat the love of death. (E. Fromm, The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness, Part II)
Since this book was written back in 1973, the author isn't really commenting on the world we live in today, but rather the one he inhabited at the time. If you look at how things have shifted, modern necrophilia shows up in the way people parade around mummified saints through city streets, rather than in calls for harsher punishments for criminals. Today’s "exploitative powers" have actually been pretty smart; they realized that a more liberal approach helps them stay in control much longer. It’s not even the revolutionaries who carry the weight of violence and destruction anymore—it's the mainstream media. The whole landscape has changed. There is still room to love life, but you can't just spark that feeling with some government decree. You can't manufacture perfect conditions either, not while we're living under a capitalist system where the "invisible hand of the market" dictates the media landscape—a media that essentially feeds off our human curiosity for everything weird and bizarre. And honestly, that's exactly what's happening with these little flowers you keep dropping—without being asked—onto a subforum that's supposed to be a virtual oasis of peace and reason.
If you were trying to subtly flex your necrophilia by using that old "show, don't tell" trick, then mission accomplished. If you weren't, honestly, you just failed miserably. And as for our dear moderators? They’re clearly dead and buried. ☕