 Dostoyevsky and democracy
I see we are all russian literature enthusiasts. Dostoyevsky was my favorite, followed by Gogol and then Tolstoy. Guille I understood nihilism to be belief in nothing (which would make sense, given its latin root "nihi"=nothing) What then is the difference between agnosticsm and your version of nihilism? I still don't understand why you think the Goddess doesn't depend on us (or why its not a possibility). Maybe we are here so that she can experience this reality directly? In any event, didn't we create her?
"Time stops and leaves us. We've lost it, and so we have decided to look back at the time we already have. It's like when one wants to have more money but can't, then you look at how much you have and start spending it. It's a law of nature. And this is all Baudrillard."
Time doesn't stop, we do. And we don't "want" anything.
Of course human rights are interepreted as species rights. That comes from the definition of "human". There is a great deal of work to be done in this area. That is not to say that the animals and the environment don't have rights. There are some societies which take this into consideration. Bioregionalism is growing here, which designates different people on the decision making body to represent for example, the ocean. Also societies like Greenpeace, Sierra Legal Defence Fund, different aboriginal societies ensure that some regard is given to non-human life forms.
I agree with you that democracy is the dictatorship of the majority (as Plato said "rule by the ignorant masses") but all the various alternatives which have been tried to date are infinitely worse. The solution, as I see it, is to make sure the masses aren't ignorant.
I really don't know what you mean by your next response to my post post-modern comment. I feel the earth move and the life that imbues everything. There is death, but it certainly is not universal or even profound. Maybe it's just a question of perspective.  |