EGOCENTRIC VS. ECOCENTRIC CULTURE

in #culture6 years ago

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"In egocentric cultures, like that of mainstream contemporary America, the Muse-Beloved and the Wild Indigenous One are the two facets of our natural human wholeness most actively suppressed, the two facets most dangerous to patho-adolescent societies. In order to function at all, military-industrial society needs at least half of its citizens to occupy the dull and offensive roles of consumer, worker bee, paper pusher, soldier, and tyrant – and to experience this desecration as merely normal, to relabel this travesty as simply what human life is like.
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These conformist roles are mind numbing, soul violating, heartbreaking, people harming, and world wasting. In order to have a majority of people willing to sign up for such a colorless flatland, the innately lavish human imagination must be crushed with an array of blunt tools, including patho-adolescent television programming; teach-to-the-test 'educational' methods; fearmongering religious indoctrination; and the widespread hawking of vitality-suppressing and creativity-crushing addictions to TV, computers, smart phones, and other screens, gadgets, shopping, junk food, pornography, insipid entertainment, and the modern human-diminishing pharmacy of alcohol, painkillers, tranquilizers, crack, amphetamines for children, and vastly overprescribed antidepressants for everyone."

Bill Plotkin: Wild Mind – A Field Guide to the Human Psyche

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Nice, hierarchy or nod-based . Are both possible, the circle inside the triangle. Both spinning, constantly.

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