Javelin RE Misanthropicus RE Identity politics/telling someone what to do:
“[...] and holy than thou attitude of the theocons too? Is the reverse true, should someone stop being a vegetarian because you are offended by their healthier choices? Or is that some liberal myth too? You sound like you made up your mind long before you ever really thought about things.[...]”
Javelin,
1) your “theocons’/ holier-than thou” hypothesis should be expanded to all “theo” proselytizers and justifiers, be they Buddhist, Mosaic, Catholic, Muslim or whatever, because all religions address/respond to existential anxieties which are dwarfingly universal.
Yes, I find un-requested religious overtures unpleasant – yet here I have to mention that it is only the LAX chic Buddhists, Jehova’s Wits. & Scientologists that bother me. And I complement this with the observation that I simply find no signs of Catholic, Mosaic or Protestant “holier than thou” proselytizing around – for you to figure out this.
2) religious, “holier than thou” proselythizing adresses/responds very serious and, alas! unanswered existential questions and they are not generated by persons who HAVE THE WEAKNESS/NEED TO DISPLAY their appartenance to an “enlightened” group, trend or cause (or be counfounded with) – flaunting macrobiotic choices, adoring homosexual marriages, driving Priuses or flashing open-minded electoral options part and parcel of this.
3) a good exercise for you before pursuing further this “holier than thou” issue would be a critical comparison, side-by-side of Tolstoy’s “Resurrection” issues/ characters with the liberal/progressive coteries’ concerns you are probably familiar with.
’till then, remember: every one hundred miles you drive with your Prius kills a Chile copper miner, and every minute that Arbitron logs on you watching MTV finances the killing of three black inner city kids.
