Re: A conversation overheard

[Mike Ballard <swillsqueal@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My take on the phenomenon from an April 24th post to
LBO below.

Regards,
Mike B)
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Zizek indicates that people don't want to know, they
like the idea of being represented by a simpleton
(Bush) who is manipulated behind the scenes by the
evil intellectual genius (Cheney) because they accept
that 'their' governing structures will do bad things
and they don't want to have to think about it.  They
pay taxes so that others can do the dirty work, so to
speak, for them.

I've noticed this phenomenon over the years and
developed a name for it, "militant ignorance".

Is it possible that this militant ignorance is a
product of both the natural desire to protect oneself
from harm--survival instinct--which is nurtured
ideologically ( e.g. among others: the dualism
inherent in Christianity's attempt to hold back the
chaotic tide of Nature) in our daily lives under class
rule?
http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20030421/012179.html


 --- joanna bujes <jbujes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I fear
to think of what it will take to wake this
> country up...or what
> will happen if they choose not to.
>
> Joanna
>
> Eugene Coyle wrote:
>
> > Stopped at an I-Hop for lunch on the road today.
> >
> > Three women, dressed as office workers, perhaps 25
> - 35 years old, took
> > the next table.
> >
> > They chatted, then one spoke of a friend in the
> service in Iraq, working
> > on restoring the electrical grid.  They'd come
> under attack, and one boy
> > lost an arm, a second a leg, taken off at the very
> top.
> >
> > The second one said "I'm not paying attention to
> that."
> >
> > The third one said  "Have you got your Christmas
> lights up yet?"
> >
> > and they chatted.
> >
> > Gene Coyle
> >
> >

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"Memoirs," 1924
This Quarter
Autumn 1929

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