<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1505" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=781533819-20062005>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.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=781533819-20062005></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=781533819-20062005>Revolutionaries ask how do we change meaning, not just find it ?</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=781533819-20062005></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=781533819-20062005>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.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=781533819-20062005></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=781533819-20062005>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.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=781533819-20062005></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=781533819-20062005>Charles</SPAN></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>