16-04-2013, 06:17 PM
Adele Edisen Wrote:Jan,
Why can't certain people have any kind of moral base?
Adele
Adele - a hugely important question, worthy of reams and reams in response.
When we lose our moral compass, we lose everything.
As shorthand, I think much of it comes down to a huge, unchecked, unaccountable ego and a catastrophic lack of empathy.
Or, as in the case of a Nazi or fundamentalist philosophy, an empathy which applies to "your people", or "your class", or "your blood", combined with the belief that everyone else is inferior and therefore not worthy of empathy.
Power and hypocrisy.
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war