[lbo-talk] Philip Mirowski - Social Physicist

Joanna 123hop at comcast.net
Fri Mar 5 18:16:40 PST 2010


Chris writes:

"Dudes and Dudettes, "an organism is healthy" is the judgment that "an organism is working as it is supposed to work.""

I have a problem with this because our sense of whether we are whole is not entirely dependent on social conditioning. There is an internal proprioception which also exists and provides the visceral sense that something is wrong though society says it is right.

For example, oppressed minorities are routinely told that they are inferior, stupid, ugly, incompetent, and every bad thing that you can think of. Yet some, are able to step out of the social hallucination and fully feel their shared and whole humanity, and revolt against this treatment. How would this be possible if truth were completely socially constructed?

Joanna



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