Gift share from The Atlantic - Moral Relativism and its modern implications

[tryptakid]

Why Do So Many People Think That Trump Is Good?

The work of the moral philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre helps illuminate some central questions of our time.

www.theatlantic.com

I thought I would share this and I debated whether CEPS or Philosophy was the right forum - I think Philosophy is because this article is less about the day-to-day of our body politic, and more about the loss of inherent connection to virtue and a shared concept of morality. I invite others to read this article (I've shared a gift link that should be good through July 26, and comment on their thoughts.

One of my main takeaways regards our current paradox of interconnectivity and widespread alienation being the result of a fixation on the individual in-spite-of the society. Individualism has created a safe space for every self-centered view point to manifest without accountability and then metasticize to others who prefer the freedom to excuse themselves over the obligation to better themselves. We feel trapped in a paradigm that has simultaneously made everything feel both safe to live how I see fit, and as though our personalized views of the world are always under attack. It's distressing, confusing, and increasingly purposeless. What is my life supposed to be if not to further the personal code I have created for myself which is not truly understood by anyone else? By following my personal code, I walk further and further away from the group and wonder why no one else walks alongside me. I am alone in the gilded cage of my own making, funded by the vast empty space society has afforded me, wondering if 'an other' will come along. If they were to come along, would they be joining me or taking from me? The ambivalence inherent to this question leads to defensive stagnation, apathy, and fear.

 

[kiely]

The elite. The ones that are superior to you: The banksters, the one's at the top of the pyramid so to speak. The puppet master. And puppets. And who the media work for or display the next card. And want to brainwash humanity.

It starts at the top. It's a puppet master world and the rest of the world is nothing but slavery. The ones that are all being controlled and brainwashed, anyway.

The elite want to brainwash humanity into using vague, wishy washy terms like "crazy" or "weird" and to oppose something they don't like in a reactive or emotional way, instead of using objective logic and explanation to disagree with something, and instead of describing something they don't like as "wrong" , "factually inaccurate", "immoral", etc.

You know, like the greatest weapon is not a gun or a bomb. It's the control of the information. To control the world's information is to manipulate all of the minds that consume it.

Humans are just piss ants on a spec of dust. And that think they are in some way IMPORTANT. Everybody wants to rule the world.

LoL

I am not right or left or even Bernie. I am all focused on power and control of the huge World Order.

And basically before someone asks, ( please don't. utse instead ), it is being siphoned down through the power of the imf.
The international monetary fund ... and the petro dollar. Who they play as a chess piece too.
It's a big manipulating pyramid game from top to ground.

Yeah and Trump gets in the way as the obstacle in the whole picture. By the Elite ' families ' in the power and control scheme.
The Bilderbergers for starters. Ect ect. Govt's and World Orders.

And my honest opinion only. If you weren't born into it you ain't going to be in it anyway. Slaves all of us.
The pawns on a chessboard. It also goes big, deep. Like a pyramid.

 

[Cheshire_Kat]

Just a reminder that this is Philosophy and Spirituality not current events and politics.
Please keep the posts framed in the sub forum's focus if everyone wants this discussion to remain here rather than CE&P

Thanks

 

[kiely]

tldr;

It's a big giant pyramid club that manipulates information of all of the minds that consume it.

 

[kiely]

Edit :

Okay.

The brainwashing of humanity into the society of using vague, wishy washy terms like "crazy" or "weird" and to oppose something not liked such as into a reactive causing or emotional way, instead of using objective logic and explanation to disagree with something, and instead of describing something not liked as "wrong" , "factually inaccurate", "immoral", etc.

You know, like the greatest weapon is not a gun or a bomb. It's the control of the information. To control society of the world's information is to manipulate all of the minds that consume it.

But I am sure that is still a bit too political .... but I am working on my effort of using philosophy too. Sori.

 

[Cheshire_Kat]

The basic structure of "what is reality" was questioned by the enlightenment period that began to take hold in the late 17th century. Previous to that critical thinking and objective reality was the principle that as taught. The present society is the eventual result of the shift from being taught objective reality to relative thinking.

Presently it is common to hear someone say that "this is my reality" whereas before that it was more common to say that a common reality exists.

I'm not claiming one is better that the other, merely that this is what is happening.

 

[kiely]

I tried to do my best. But that is my philosophy of my response to the topic. Which I can delve into more philosophically when I start to get into the vibe and focus of the deep subject matters too. Philosophy will be a nice refreshing focus too. In all of this mind consumption as well.

 

[kiely]

" If a person gave away your body to some passerby, you'd be furious.

Yet you hand over your mind to anyone who comes along ... '

---- Epictetus


And this is just a bit of philosophy that I can feel that still just resonates to the present day as well. A philosophy that is still lost from part of the ancient knowledge of history repeating again. hehe.