I have reached a new synthesis of my thinking…
..a new synthesis of my thinking on what started as my inner frustration and gradual consciousness of a question that constitutes the origin or both my returning to Evergreen three years ago, and subsequent course of study, viz. why is American society so indifferent to other people and animals and their suffering and how can I affect this? This new synthesis is simply expressed in the new title and tag line of my blog (which was formerly Political Philosophy & helping people and animals), as well as my new salutation.
Unconforming, Unindifferent Thinking & Acting for yourself & other beings.
Yes I made up two new words, but I don’t like the word nonconforming (I guess it doesn’t quite have the connotation I want and has a connotation I don’t want; that is, I am not advocating a primary emphasis of being against something, such as rebellion or fighting might constitute, but instead a passionate, acute, intelligent, questioning, not complying, powerfully unmasking and acting response) and there doesn’t seem to exist a direct word (that isn’t so over used that it has lost all its meaning and feeling and impact–i.e. caring) for the opposite of indifferent.
To exemplify my intent, two examples are 1.) I look before and beyond religion’s exclusion of animals as sharing an equal and whole part in life, religion being essentially humanistic and theistic (”This is not Sufficient, An Essay on Animality and Human Nature in Derrida”, by Leonard Lawlor, page 99), and 2.) I, having suspected Psychology along with its medication industry and criminal justice system, look before and through these foot soldiers of society, who preach and enforce compliance and I see clearly, the concerted assault of the modern debunking “sciences”, Psychology and Sociology… (I love that she puts sciences in quotes) …[in which] nothing indeed has seemed to be more safely buried than the concept of freedom.” (”On Revolution”, by Hannah Arendt, page 1).
My new tag line:
Self originated, Self trusted, Self actualized thinking, speaking, caring and acting for yourself & other beings; we can change our world.
Always thinking and caring,
Robin
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