tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post5246365728506391111..comments2024-02-11T03:50:53.613-05:00Comments on Counterlight's Peculiars: Bloody RussiaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-73876649180834684822013-08-18T08:16:25.525-04:002013-08-18T08:16:25.525-04:00Reason and rationalism are not synonymous. The fu...Reason and rationalism are not synonymous. The fundies and the haters definitely rationalize. You are quite right about that. The libertarian crowd also rationalizes a lot. A string of syllogisms strung together by their "therefores" is not a compelling case.Counterlighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14345956180434795401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-83494349721719463652013-08-18T00:29:02.712-04:002013-08-18T00:29:02.712-04:00Foolish consistency, yada-yada-yada... ;-/
I free...Foolish consistency, yada-yada-yada... ;-/<br /><br />I freely admit I love the, um, "sausage" of Enlightenment Rationalism. Just not so much the sausage-making (all that "Count, Measure and Weigh" business). <br /><br />But you're an artist, Doug: surely I don't need to explain that? That "beauty is in the eye of the beholder", not in a paint-by-numbers formula?<br /><br />I see Rationalism in our opponents, frankly. All that "Man + Woman = Baby" business, repeated AS IF a <i>re</i>productive fact (for now!), were a <i>productive</i> Truth. I don't think it is (but that's just my intuitive hunch ;-/).JCFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14516376500318551838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-29321091785125684532013-08-17T08:09:21.980-04:002013-08-17T08:09:21.980-04:00And yet, if it wasn't for that awful Enlighten...And yet, if it wasn't for that awful Enlightenment, there would be no constitutional democracy, only autocracy (which the 19th century Slavophiles embraced enthusiastically).Counterlighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14345956180434795401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-1681210409561774102013-08-16T17:38:07.386-04:002013-08-16T17:38:07.386-04:00the 19th century Slavophiles would cast themselves...<i>the 19th century Slavophiles would cast themselves as the anti-Enlightenment, focused instead on an intuitive, communal link between God, the community, and the natural world (sobornost')</i><br /><br />I resonate w/ all of these (don't forget Byzantine art!), yet I'm . . . well, <i>me</i>.<br /><br />So (absolutely no offense to you, Doug) it's got to be something else. Certainly, the pathological nationalism. The Victim Mentality (which SUCKS EVERYWHERE it raises its ugly "They're oppressing me w/ their neck under my boot!" head).<br /><br />And, per always, poverty and its "savage inequalities". It's a terrible, toxic brew.JCFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14516376500318551838noreply@blogger.com