RE: pop morality
February 1, 2016 at 7:21 pm
(This post was last modified: February 1, 2016 at 7:27 pm by Cecelia.)
(February 1, 2016 at 12:46 pm)Drich Wrote: I am showing a direct parallel between pop morality now and the popular morality of Nazi germany. I am simply asking if your only absolute to define what right and wrong is pop culture, then what keeps us/soceity from following the path of the Nazis?
Nothing keeps society from following that path. If it did, then we wouldn't have had the Nazi's go that path either. The fact is that all morality is 'pop morality' as you call it. Even the morality that comes from the Bible, and other religious texts. Some people base their morality off of these so called holy books, but in the end most people spin their holy books to fit their morality.
If Germany had won World War II most would likely conform their opinions to the idea that Jews were bad, and had to be disposed of.
Is this a terrifying concept? No. Why? For one simple reason: Because we learn. Humanity has been persecuting less and less as we continue intellectual pursuits. Even in the short time I've been alive, this country has shifted it's opinion on Gay Marriage. Look at how not that long ago segregation of blacks and whites had ample support. Yet today, the only time we separate whites is with our washing machines. Humans are nothing if not creatures of learning. We learn from our history so that we do not repeat the mistakes of our past. That isn't a faith in god, but a faith in humanity. We've come so far from being apes who were just starting to learn to use tools. We've taken that learning process to it's logical conclusion. We learn, and that's why it's not terrifying.
The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to woman is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton