RE: America is Tragically Soul-Sick
January 12, 2015 at 3:28 am
(This post was last modified: January 12, 2015 at 3:33 am by NathanHawks.)
(January 12, 2015 at 3:10 am)Alex K Wrote: I think your reading of Nietzsche is a bit too superficial here. He didn't advocate a society of ruthless selfishness.
I was talking specifically of bastardized-Nietzsche-flavored thought; meaning, Nietzsche filtered by the process of being spat out of a Nazi's mouth.
Other thoughts-in-reply likely to follow.
(January 12, 2015 at 3:17 am)Alex K Wrote:(January 12, 2015 at 3:03 am)NathanHawks Wrote: It is virtually illegal to be an atheist in my country. My generation (I'm 38) thought it was getting better, but then we became an evil theocratic empire, and atheism is once again becoming thought of as the terrorist side of the liberal spectrum. So, "beaten-down" does not begin to describe.
Though I'm the first to decry these tendencies in the US, a country I am very fond of, I don't think describing it as a theocracy is valid. Delusions of imperialism can't be completely denied.
Look into all the ways in which tax money is given to faith-based organizations which then parlay that money into successful big-money lobbying. Oligarchy or corporateocracy are both inadequate words; I don't think we have an adequate word for the intersection of fascistic influences at work (and currently very dominant) in my homeland.
