On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski
<swsokolowski at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> --- On Thu, 3/12/09, Philip Pilkington <pilkingtonphil at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> model. With no society there are no "Others" as
>> such and if there is no
>> "Others" as such there is only the self and thus
>> no responsibility. Without
>> the proper ability to communicate with "Others",
>> with society if the self
>> feels like it needs to lash out and kill, then the self can
>> lash out and
>> kill... no problem.
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> [WS:] One may also argue that an act of "anomie" killing is a perverse form of "contact" with the other (as we are by nature social animals,) one written in flesh and blood if you will (cf. Kafka's _Penal Colony_). That is to say, extreme alienation and the lack of contact with the "other" produces a strong desire to establish such contact "for real" as opposed to fake interactions of a consumerist society. It is the opposite of a "frivolous" killing, especially that it often ends in the perpetrator killing himself at the end, achieving a sort of communion through death. In other words, what is natural (social contact) but denied in actual life (thanks to alienation) is ritualistically reaffirmed by death.
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> But we are getting awfully speculative here....
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