Well, I read "Animal Farm" when Khrushchev was in power and my child self thought Orwell was laying it on a bit thick.
And I'll keep saying as I always do that all religions are the same and communism is no different; the human lust to control the lives of others is unquenchable; I've been to Parent Association meetings that make any day in the Ukraine-Russian war look mild.
No matter how small the gathering there's always someone who wants to rule it all and you get three likeminded someones to form an alliance against all the rest, it gets real bloody every time.
There's no system no matter how lofty its ideals that doesn't on the ground become pure savagery given the least excuse; Myanmar is a Buddhist country and so, of course, was Cambodia and those many centuries of inculcating nonviolence into the populace achieved zero.
I sure agree with you about Elliot though. These guys were all tiresome to the ultimate--uh--power.
I wouldn't be so ready to condemn all religion. Though your point seems justifiable. The "separation of church and state" is almost always thought of upside-down. It's the state (political power) that corrupts the church. Christianity (and even Islam, to an extent) have enormously blessed peoples lives and shaped Western thought. But then they became political powers and we got the inquisition and intifada. Horror shows that exceeded imagination.
There's a mighty big difference between the Intersectionality of Critical Sin Theory and an intuition that we might possibly be hardwired to sense a Higher Authority, and from that comprehend an impulse towards order and justice as good guideposts for navigating the universe.
Well, I read "Animal Farm" when Khrushchev was in power and my child self thought Orwell was laying it on a bit thick.
And I'll keep saying as I always do that all religions are the same and communism is no different; the human lust to control the lives of others is unquenchable; I've been to Parent Association meetings that make any day in the Ukraine-Russian war look mild.
No matter how small the gathering there's always someone who wants to rule it all and you get three likeminded someones to form an alliance against all the rest, it gets real bloody every time.
There's no system no matter how lofty its ideals that doesn't on the ground become pure savagery given the least excuse; Myanmar is a Buddhist country and so, of course, was Cambodia and those many centuries of inculcating nonviolence into the populace achieved zero.
I sure agree with you about Elliot though. These guys were all tiresome to the ultimate--uh--power.
I wouldn't be so ready to condemn all religion. Though your point seems justifiable. The "separation of church and state" is almost always thought of upside-down. It's the state (political power) that corrupts the church. Christianity (and even Islam, to an extent) have enormously blessed peoples lives and shaped Western thought. But then they became political powers and we got the inquisition and intifada. Horror shows that exceeded imagination.
There's a mighty big difference between the Intersectionality of Critical Sin Theory and an intuition that we might possibly be hardwired to sense a Higher Authority, and from that comprehend an impulse towards order and justice as good guideposts for navigating the universe.
YouтАЩre describing the sin nature.
Geez kid.