[lbo-talk] An Appeal to the Need for Meaning

[Charles Brown]

A road to a new political hell in America might be paved with good
intentions and focus on seeking to find meaning in life, as much as one
might empathize with said longing for meaning in and of life. Weren't
Nietszcheans and Heideggerians in Germany focussed on search for meaning ?
Or at least leftists may get sidetracked from sufficiently countering
rightwing thrusts.  Old stuff has too much advantage in making meaning, so
there's a reactionary tendency.

 
Revolutionaries ask how do we change meaning, not just find it ?

 
Some religion anthropomorphizes  the universe ( God makes man (sic) , when
,actually, man makes the universe manlike, i.e God) so as to make it more
familiar to humans. _A posteriori_ the experience of history, we can say the
burden of proof has shifted to proponents of this understandable
sympathetical-magical approach to giving meaning and familiarity to it all
(the burden has shifted )to them to establish the concept of God's fit for
the way things are.

 
In sociology, society is anthropomorphized or animalized in some theories;
society is like an organism ( See Radcliffe-Brown). Parsons' structural
functional analogies to physiology follow this metaphor.

 
Charles
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