Cognosce te ipsum
Ideals and Reality
Each of us comes into the
world as a blank canvas with a physical and mental singularity, enshrined in an
individual set of genes, and with his or her particular character traits. The
formation of the humane consciousness of a person, socialisation and the development
of personality occur already in a concrete reality and in the existing conditions.
The information obtained by a
person from the environment determines:
➤ value orientation of each individual;
➤ motivation of his or her behaviour in the
understanding of good and evil;
➤ balance or disproportion of egoism and altruism in the
person’s actions;
➤ discordance of truth and falsehood or their merger,
justification, suppression of facts or admittance of falsehood with supposedly
good intention;
➤ ratio of hypocrisy and decency, justice, tolerance and
openness in mutual relations.
As a result, the ideals of
humanism are either strengthened or eroded: declaration is only in words, whereas
ignorance is in practice.
The Rebel
Sell: How the Counterculture Became Consumer Culture
by Joseph Heath, Andrew Potter
In
this wide-ranging and perceptive work of cultural criticism, Joseph Heath and
Andrew Potter shatter the most important myth that dominates much of radical
political, economic, and cultural thinking. The idea of a counterculture -- a
world outside of the consumer-dominated world that encompasses us -- pervades
everything from the antiglobalization movement to feminism and
environmentalism. And the idea that mocking or simply hoping the
"system" will collapse, the authors argue, is not only
counterproductive but has helped to create the very consumer society radicals
oppose.
Nav komentāru:
Ierakstīt komentāru