Posted by on June 28, 2011 at 16:34:50
In Reply to: Re: Consumerism posted by OT2 on June 28, 2011 at 15:51:56:
Hello, again, Skep (& MG).
I watched the video, again, to try and take a fresh look: just to make sure of my impressions. But Dr Salaci (Sp?) definitely seems to be painting with an extremely wide brush, and a communism-leaning ideology. After all, even in the States, here, last time I took them, the major theorist cited in Sociology 101-type courses is Karl Marx!
And, I don’t know any currently practicing psychotherapists who still ascribe to Freud—he made all sorts of hypotheses about the psyches of children, fantasizing about father-murder and mother-rape by children and/or as adults psychically injured in childhood by such fantasies, usually therapist-implanted ideas, and such, while only ever treating upper-class bourgeois Victorian women as clients—quite a few educated in the field feel his hypotheses were the perversions of his own petty life writ large (much like David Berg, IMO). I wouldn’t put much stock in anything Freud said—that’s ignorant.
So, it is to be expected that an atheist-originated hypothesis such as that posited in Marx's "Das Kapital" is pretty much the kind of pseudo-intellectual tripe which has always been spouted by doctrinaire hardliners. This lady doesn't sound any different after all.
I certainly don't think as she predicts the proletariat will irresistibly do. What a load of crap! It truly insults my intelligence. I don’t feel at all the neuroses she describes affect us “all”, nor the inevitable end of non-free thinking “worker bees”—pure shite out of the Communist Manifesto—been there, done that,got bored and grew up intellectually!
God has given me “all things that pertain to life and godliness”, I have learned contentment, and I will never be the kind of manipulable fool she describes.
Sure does remind me of Berg’s diatribes; though!
Respectfully,
OT2