Moral propaganda or training has a tendency to produce élitism, intolerance and reaction (...) The very act of educating people to behave in a certain way requires exaggeration of the ideas that are being communicated, and some over-motivation of the trained in order to achieve results. (...) The ethic of the nationalist war-maniac or terrorist is just an exaggeration of normal defensive patriotism; the absurd asceticism of the desert hermit, trappist monk, the sustained masochism of modern Shiite sects, the death and glory missions of the kamikaze, are semi-hysterical extensions of conventional self-denial teachings. (...) A by product of moral élitism is intolerance and persecution. There are factors in moral training which tend to suggest that those who follow a code are elect, the chosen people, the master race, and all others are deviants. When the moral training is to a high pitch there is a tendency to induce the superiority complex which may be hyper-critical and even violent towards non-believers. (Oliver Thomson - A History of Sin) Have a wonderful week-end ...
Posted on: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 09:27:45 +0000
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