11-13-2020, 06:17 AM
I’ve been hanging around this site, it’s predecessors, it’s variants for some time now. In that time I’ve crossed swords with a number of infallible people, who were ever so sure their perspective on things was correct.
One was a fundamentalist. The Bible was held to be literally true. Now, I see the Bible as an historical document. The Hebrews and early Christians who put together the book were wise enough, but came from different eras, representing a constantly evolving culture. This guy would cherry pick bits and pieces of the many divergent cultures. Behold. The land of milk and honey. Slay the men. Enslave the women and children. That was state of the art tribal thinking at the time, but hardly represents the later thoughts of Jesus. By picking and choosing among the various Agricultural Age cultures, he came to justify a perverse world view. God hates homosexuals. If you would quote the parts about loving everybody, that would make him dwell more on the hate.
Eric of course is into astrology. We had grand debates once upon a time, he pushing forward Bishop Berkley’s way of looking at the world, my pushing Newton’s. You think I got anywhere? Astrology was a perfectly good tool for learning objective truth. Ugh.
So am I surprised or dismayed by bumping into Generational Dynamics? A perfect system that produces absolute truth? It is just another perspective among many, proposing to lead one to absolute truth. Most people in this site have political world views. They mostly tweak the red and blue perspectives. The above examples include the more unique religious and spiritual ones.
But I assume everybody develops a worldview and set of values. Everyone has a way of looking at the world and set of goals which they strive towards. It is too hard to go through life thinking through each problem from objective first principles. It is better to develop a set of guidelines, shortcuts, systems which guide you to quick and easy solutions. It is part of growing up as a human. As people grow up in different environments, you get different results. One problem is people who grow up in one environment trying to compel others to adapt their shortcuts on people who grew up somewhere else.
Generational Dynamics does confuse one red perspective as uniquely true. It is hardly unique. Xenakis declaring that other views don’t exist, his replacing other world views and values with easy to shoot down straw men and parodies isn’t either. It is typical par for the course. Everybody develops a worldview and values. A culture is just a bunch of people with similar worldviews and values. Assuming that one’s own perspective is somehow unique and special is sloppy thinking.
One was a fundamentalist. The Bible was held to be literally true. Now, I see the Bible as an historical document. The Hebrews and early Christians who put together the book were wise enough, but came from different eras, representing a constantly evolving culture. This guy would cherry pick bits and pieces of the many divergent cultures. Behold. The land of milk and honey. Slay the men. Enslave the women and children. That was state of the art tribal thinking at the time, but hardly represents the later thoughts of Jesus. By picking and choosing among the various Agricultural Age cultures, he came to justify a perverse world view. God hates homosexuals. If you would quote the parts about loving everybody, that would make him dwell more on the hate.
Eric of course is into astrology. We had grand debates once upon a time, he pushing forward Bishop Berkley’s way of looking at the world, my pushing Newton’s. You think I got anywhere? Astrology was a perfectly good tool for learning objective truth. Ugh.
So am I surprised or dismayed by bumping into Generational Dynamics? A perfect system that produces absolute truth? It is just another perspective among many, proposing to lead one to absolute truth. Most people in this site have political world views. They mostly tweak the red and blue perspectives. The above examples include the more unique religious and spiritual ones.
But I assume everybody develops a worldview and set of values. Everyone has a way of looking at the world and set of goals which they strive towards. It is too hard to go through life thinking through each problem from objective first principles. It is better to develop a set of guidelines, shortcuts, systems which guide you to quick and easy solutions. It is part of growing up as a human. As people grow up in different environments, you get different results. One problem is people who grow up in one environment trying to compel others to adapt their shortcuts on people who grew up somewhere else.
Generational Dynamics does confuse one red perspective as uniquely true. It is hardly unique. Xenakis declaring that other views don’t exist, his replacing other world views and values with easy to shoot down straw men and parodies isn’t either. It is typical par for the course. Everybody develops a worldview and values. A culture is just a bunch of people with similar worldviews and values. Assuming that one’s own perspective is somehow unique and special is sloppy thinking.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.
