Anyone read/have thoughts on Ishmael by Daniel Quinn?
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Date: September 18th, 2018 7:18 PM Author: umber alpha
obviously the premise is kinda shitlib on its face, but the Noble Savage thing has some merit.
Pretty clear that what we call "civilization" is awful in a lot of ways, Industrial Revolution and its consequences, etc. Forget global warming arguments, just look at overpopulation, which is a huge issue discussed in the book. lulzy that it was published in the early 90s and he's like "you guys are at 5 billion humans now, that's nuts!" when now, barely 25 years later, it's at 7.5 billion and climbing. I think we're pretty fucked.
Also the whole Genesis/Fall being a metaphor for the departure from early human life is convincing imo
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Date: September 23rd, 2018 2:39 PM Author: umber alpha
finished it. I rate it 175.
simplest summary is at the end: "the world belongs to man" vs. "man belongs to the world" which I think is a pretty good explanation of our problems.
The whole metaphorical analysis of Genesis was very cr
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Date: September 23rd, 2018 2:58 PM Author: Comical lake newt
the best way i can describe orthodoxy in secular/impartial/publicly accessible terms is as follows.
your brain does not think simply in terms of literal correspondences, i.e. the picture theory of mind is only part of the story. That's a great way to describe external/physical things.
it thinks in other forms of correspondence, just call it internal correspondence. that's when you say certain words that may have an external correspondence but that, when strung together in certain ways it, like art, conjures certain mental/inner states.
Now during the experience of art you can't know you're experiencing art, otherwise you're not experiencing it. similarly, when protestants explicitly mythologize scripture they're not experiencing scripture.
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