[lit-ideas] Re: Socialist Beliefs
- From: "Eric Yost" <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 18:27:52 -0400
>> The chef was French and decidedly unAmerican. He would sing the
Internationale as he worked as a kind of in-your-face snub at the
owners.
I value the inspection of motives rather than beliefs. Why did Marx, who
never worked a day in his life, write Das Kapital? Why are so many
evangelical Christians, with their insistence on miracles in theology,
in other aspects of their lives, naive materialists? Why are people
often, in daily life, exemplifying the opposites of their proclaimed
beliefs? The people who "love mankind" are often quite nasty to
individual people.
Beliefs are a type of symbolic self that people defend. Meanwhile they
often run roughshod over their beliefs, their shadows showing.
Eric
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