Showing posts with label prestige. Show all posts
Showing posts with label prestige. Show all posts
Sunday, May 19, 2013
From the Archives: The Self and its Sources Part 13
Examples of images of fanciful prestige that keep humans from slaughtering each other.
Lord of the Flies: British officer as representative of the sacrificial system - a form of transcendence.
Friday, May 17, 2013
From the Archives: The Self and its Sources Part 12
Democracy as the myth of the death of kings (Charles I and Louis XVI).
Plato: let no one disturb the small stone that separates friendship and enmity.
Prestige: those illusions that kept us from slaughtering one another.
The Caiaphas principle: it is better that one should die than the whole nation be destroyed.
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