Oh, I see. Interesting.
Well, I understand what you are saying, but I can't speak to the motivations of people, especially on a large scale and why they may be inventing another foundational myth for "Western civilisation".
What I do notice is something that I experience more as a phenomenon, whereby there seem to be two types of cultural logic and I find myself on the outside of the contemporary Western cultural logic.
The current mode of relating to others has been, maybe since the 70s, narcissistic. That logic is very strange to me. For instance, take its basic premise that one only speaks in order to dominate others. In terms of this logic, one does not speak to communicate something new, or to create intimacy, but to manipulate perceptions and take control.
This is the quandary I have been experiencing ever since migration from Africa. I haven't known how to survive in such a situation, and I haven't known how to relate.
According to the cultural logic which is no doubt much more akin to Catholicism's, one has an inner being, which is the intimate self, and is reluctant to communicate -- even, in a sense, incommunicable. Modernity dispenses with this, and hence I don't know how to relate to it, or within it.
So, it is the modern form of Western culture that is narcissistic, but the older style of it, including the Catholic style, is roughly speaking "schiozoid" in its logic, due to the hidden and bashful nature of this inner self.
One might ask a different sort of question then, which is are these right wing intellectuals trying to create a version of things that is narcissistic, or more aligned with the schizoid pattern? Are they intent on creating something modern or traditionalist?
In fact, it has to be one or the other, or perhaps a third option, but there is no overlap between schizoid reasoning and narcissistic reasoning: they are most unalike.
Perhaps, if the new identity for the West is based on implicit narcissism, it will deny, and not see at all the reaches of Catholicism and its very different unifying potency.
Personally, I can't stand listening to almost all of the successful Youtube "intellectuals" because they do employ the implicit language of narcissism. I find more in common with an Asian worldview.
Well, I understand what you are saying, but I can't speak to the motivations of people, especially on a large scale and why they may be inventing another foundational myth for "Western civilisation".
What I do notice is something that I experience more as a phenomenon, whereby there seem to be two types of cultural logic and I find myself on the outside of the contemporary Western cultural logic.
The current mode of relating to others has been, maybe since the 70s, narcissistic. That logic is very strange to me. For instance, take its basic premise that one only speaks in order to dominate others. In terms of this logic, one does not speak to communicate something new, or to create intimacy, but to manipulate perceptions and take control.
This is the quandary I have been experiencing ever since migration from Africa. I haven't known how to survive in such a situation, and I haven't known how to relate.
According to the cultural logic which is no doubt much more akin to Catholicism's, one has an inner being, which is the intimate self, and is reluctant to communicate -- even, in a sense, incommunicable. Modernity dispenses with this, and hence I don't know how to relate to it, or within it.
So, it is the modern form of Western culture that is narcissistic, but the older style of it, including the Catholic style, is roughly speaking "schiozoid" in its logic, due to the hidden and bashful nature of this inner self.
One might ask a different sort of question then, which is are these right wing intellectuals trying to create a version of things that is narcissistic, or more aligned with the schizoid pattern? Are they intent on creating something modern or traditionalist?
In fact, it has to be one or the other, or perhaps a third option, but there is no overlap between schizoid reasoning and narcissistic reasoning: they are most unalike.
Perhaps, if the new identity for the West is based on implicit narcissism, it will deny, and not see at all the reaches of Catholicism and its very different unifying potency.
Personally, I can't stand listening to almost all of the successful Youtube "intellectuals" because they do employ the implicit language of narcissism. I find more in common with an Asian worldview.
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