Guiscard wrote:Napoleon Ier wrote:Guiscard wrote:(and I mean this entirely non-patronisingly)
sure you do.
Yes. I do. I remember being 15, funnily enough. You seem very intelligent, nappy. Well read, you have a brilliant vocabulary, even more so as someone who is bilingual. I'd wager you're much more informed and politically aware than the vast majority of your peers (even if I don't agree whatsoever with the conclusions you bring). On the other hand, and this is both painfully evident in some of your posts and confirmed by the clarification of your age, you suffer from a critical case of judging the world without experiencing it. You deride a state of lobotomised rubber-stamping public servants yet your experience of said 'system' can only be fairly limited. Not that I can particularly talk, as the academic world is one of the most insular and incestuous around. But I DO have friends who are social workers, friends who are teachers, friends who
hate social workers and teachers. What teacher would admit they smoke cannabis to you? You would never mix with your teachers on a social level in such a way.
Guiscard, you may well say this. Perhaps, we all learn during the course of life, what can I say? Well, I'll thank you for not deriding me based on my age ... so far.
The system, it is true, is largely a psychological construct of my own in which I lump all the negative societal pressures that have a restrictive effect on the freedom which I feel naturally becoming to humanity via my own medium. In that sense, the system is different for every person, since it takes a different form, virus-like, leeching energy, dignity, freedom and courage from everyone. To fight the system, to have blind aggressive anger, though not hatred, yet nonetheless desire to utterly destroy it, is a necessary prerequisite for psychological health.
The system however takes real tangible form. To me, and you'll laugh, the system is epitomized by examination boards - OCR "recognising acheivment" - then stiffling it. They seek to deny the existence of the subjective analytical and critical faculties
individual students may deploy at the expense of homogenised rote learning. Marxist Socialo-fascism, inspired by Hegel, in it's practice, but understand exam board as a metaphor for state...to a large my perception of the unhealthy and the system, of evil itself, is based on my experiences of
education systems, and they're influence. No doubt as an academic you wll appreciate, if not agree or find intelligent, my discourse.
What is this system, which I talk of as an essenential paradigm of human psychology? A product of our destructive urge of the thanatos raging against what is it's
natural setting in opposition to the
unnatural, the
system, the cumulative of the unnatural consequences of conscupiscience. However, resulting from the dichotomy of man, existing in his pre and post-lapsarian states, are the primal emotions and drives set within him by the Almighty that can lead either to virtue, a fight of the system, or vice, further enslavement to it, a theory I devise at once from Christian theology and of course, in Thomist tradition (Dancing Retard will appreciate), the philosopher's Ethics, which address the notion of overcoming primal urges whilst I interpret this a channeling, proper usage of them. To fail to use them is as to become a slave of system, and furthermore, to be robbed of dignity. The Romantics reconcile this proto-Nietzschian idea of rejection of chains and making of oneself as an individual with Christianity, as do other literary and psychological traditions. It is summed up in he words of one France's greatest heroes, Marécha Jean de Lattre de Tassigny : Ne Pas Subir, or "To Not be Subjected", though something cenral to this quote is lost in translation....
Hopefully this helps you understand my psychological creation of the system, which some, to my furor, have interpreted as neo-Marxist.
