(07-29-2016, 04:21 AM)taramarie Wrote: I wonder why they wanted to reject western culture? Devoid of the kind of eastern spiritual exploration that they desired? Throwing out evidence and western concepts of logic and rationality....if that is anything like Eric regarding mechanistic ideas or what is his favourite word for describing that way of thinking.....shit i have had too much beer to remember it right now. Hahahaha!
Anyway i would rather have a good grasp of reality rather than what nonsense they were eating up and dying for back then. Good to be a civic and get a good dose of reality at a young age. Although we will most likely make our own mistakes in the future. No doubt. We are after all imperfect.
I don't fully understand the reason for the hatred of western culture, which usually comes from the left, but I do not deny its reality. It does however explain their adopting rather oversimplified versions of Eastern mysticism. The closest current equivalent is the SJWs who consider logic to be racist. Don't ask me to explain that one because I don't really understand it myself.
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If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises