RE: The Humanities
December 23, 2019 at 2:20 am
(This post was last modified: December 23, 2019 at 2:28 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Its pointless to talk about how so and so religion "supplies a vocabulary", for anything..let alone to spiral out from there. Mainly because we supply that religion with the vocabulary in the first place. It doesn't have to be a religion, ofc, it could be anything. Whatever the unifying construct of any given culture happens to be, is how people from that culture express themselves.
You seem to think that there's some choice to be made between religious value and "marketplace" value, but religious value was a "marketplace" value to begin with.
We can spend as many pages as you like bitching about what we don't like - sure - but remember that society doesn't give a shit what you don't like, or how much you pine for some other time, or some other art, or some other system, or some other vocabulary, or some other construct. Sure, our art and culture rest on questionable values, but people like it, and that's exactly how the questionable art, values, and culture of christianity came to be as well. We're going to keep doing this...reinventing ourselves from time to time. Every time we do someone swears it's the end of this or that, but it never is.
My vote, for the best way to talk about values and the good life. Words. Same as ever. Same thing christians used, same thing that the pagans before them used. Same thing that the animists before them used.
You seem to think that there's some choice to be made between religious value and "marketplace" value, but religious value was a "marketplace" value to begin with.
We can spend as many pages as you like bitching about what we don't like - sure - but remember that society doesn't give a shit what you don't like, or how much you pine for some other time, or some other art, or some other system, or some other vocabulary, or some other construct. Sure, our art and culture rest on questionable values, but people like it, and that's exactly how the questionable art, values, and culture of christianity came to be as well. We're going to keep doing this...reinventing ourselves from time to time. Every time we do someone swears it's the end of this or that, but it never is.
My vote, for the best way to talk about values and the good life. Words. Same as ever. Same thing christians used, same thing that the pagans before them used. Same thing that the animists before them used.
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