Just a thought reading this. Do you think we could muster a bit more joy if our institutions weren’t such overpowering gerontocracies?
People aren’t expressing these sentiments for the most part out of genuine empathy. They are doing so, as you say, performatively because some high priest of secularism has told them they are sinners and need to repent. Whereas in fact they just derive some benefits (if at all) from accidents of birth like every human being, a circumstance to which no original sin is attached. We are still up to our necks in Foucault’s confession paradigm. It’s internalised self-hate that drives all this breast-beating, not love for our fellow woman and man.
Just a thought reading this. Do you think we could muster a bit more joy if our institutions weren’t such overpowering gerontocracies?
People aren’t expressing these sentiments for the most part out of genuine empathy. They are doing so, as you say, performatively because some high priest of secularism has told them they are sinners and need to repent. Whereas in fact they just derive some benefits (if at all) from accidents of birth like every human being, a circumstance to which no original sin is attached. We are still up to our necks in Foucault’s confession paradigm. It’s internalised self-hate that drives all this breast-beating, not love for our fellow woman and man.