20-08-2009, 11:11 AM
A belated welcome from me too Carsten. Your post rung a few bells.
As George Orwell said, 'In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act' eh? - and it is indeed a sobering exercise to consider the fate of pretty well ALL revolutionaries through the ages. To the extent they pose a credible threat to established power structures (ie attract attention) they tend to be dealt with accordingly. In practice that ranges from social ostracism, through petty harassment and a stalled career right up to and including a premature meeting with ones maker.
I too 'took the Red pill', so to speak, relatively recently - maybe 6 or so years ago. Anyone interested can get a flavour of how it developed from my now more-or-less redundant blog.
I didn't know Ed was an Ernest Becker fan. Me too and I heartily endorse his 'Denial of Death' recommendation. Also 'Escape from Evil' which is shorter but a summation of all his writings and published postumously. There is considerable 'Jungian' expertise on this forum. In my view, Becker builds on Jung in a thoroughly accessible fashion and to the point almost of a fulfillment of the Freud-Jung continuum. Some find his stuff pretty bleak with its ruthlessly honest probing and exposing of core personal motivations; I found it marvellously liberating - the very embodiment of that hoary old biblical cliché, 'the truth will set you free', in fact, except that it does not require blind faith in anything.
As George Orwell said, 'In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act' eh? - and it is indeed a sobering exercise to consider the fate of pretty well ALL revolutionaries through the ages. To the extent they pose a credible threat to established power structures (ie attract attention) they tend to be dealt with accordingly. In practice that ranges from social ostracism, through petty harassment and a stalled career right up to and including a premature meeting with ones maker.
I too 'took the Red pill', so to speak, relatively recently - maybe 6 or so years ago. Anyone interested can get a flavour of how it developed from my now more-or-less redundant blog.
I didn't know Ed was an Ernest Becker fan. Me too and I heartily endorse his 'Denial of Death' recommendation. Also 'Escape from Evil' which is shorter but a summation of all his writings and published postumously. There is considerable 'Jungian' expertise on this forum. In my view, Becker builds on Jung in a thoroughly accessible fashion and to the point almost of a fulfillment of the Freud-Jung continuum. Some find his stuff pretty bleak with its ruthlessly honest probing and exposing of core personal motivations; I found it marvellously liberating - the very embodiment of that hoary old biblical cliché, 'the truth will set you free', in fact, except that it does not require blind faith in anything.
Peter Presland
".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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