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16 Apr 09

Shirky: A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy

Psychological insights into much of what we know of good group networking practice.

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Eurozine - Wer um Vertrauen wirbt, weckt Misstrauen - Ute Frevert Politische Semantik zwischen Herausforderung und Besänftigung

    • english summary: In politics as in private life, "trust" and "mistrust" play a central role, writes Ute Frevert in Merkur. As former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt recently commented, politicians are in the awkward position of being dependent on the trust of the electorate, yet of forfeiting this trust as soon as they are seen to be making an effort to solicit it. And indeed, "today's political scientists commonly refer to parliamentary democracy as a system of institutionalized mistrust".

      Frevert traces the notion of trust from its appearance during the March Revolution of 1848 (as an alternative to monarchial "loyalty"); through the Weimar constitution (whose architects neither trusted the people nor relied on their trust); and into National Socialism, which "saturated society with the semantics of trust" yet simultaneously encouraged distrust of "anti-social elements". National Socialism talked of trust but meant loyalty, writes Frevert: "Trust's retractable and oppositional strength was robbed".

      The GDR government notoriously harboured a deep mistrust of its citizens. After the uprising of 17 June 1953, Kurt Barthel, head of the Writers' Association, wrote that the demonstrators had betrayed the trust placed in them by the socialist state, prompting Brecht's famous comment: "Wouldn't it be easier for the government to dissolve the people and vote for another one?" And the West German government, too, suspecting its citizens of an authority complex, drafted a constitution that tended against referenda and plebiscites.       - on 2009-02-08
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04 Feb 09

Mythic Imagination Institute - Michael Karlin

"What is made abundantly clear from the brutal nature of Kody Scott's initiation is that what one society designates as sacred may be very different than what another society deems as sacred. What may be morally acceptable and righteous behavior for one c

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  • The absence of rites of passage leads to a serious breakdown in the process of maturing as a person. Young people are unable to participate in society in a creative manner because societal structures no longer consider it their responsibility to intentionally establish the necessary marks of passing from one age-related social role to another, such as: child to youth, youth to adult, adult to elder. The result is that society has no clear expectation of how people should participate in these roles and therefore individuals do not know what is required by society.
  • Through the ritual of initiation, the gang creates and reaffirms that which is sacred for the community.
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Parsifal, Puer Aeternus, and Healing the Waste Land: Integrating Conscious and Unconscious - Joseph Good

"This "Parzivalian puer" is the one of the middle ground. It is the puer integrated with the senex to become a being who wields the wisdom of both worlds. The creative, unmanaged, wanton world of the unconscious integrated with the structured, ordered, ca

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  • In the moment of the suppression of the unconscious, the psyche becomes divided, the unconscious no longer informs conscious thought or action, and the unconscious is disassociated from the conscious. Joseph Campbell describes the modern state of the human psyche this way and it is also relevant to the condition which Parzival represents; "The lines of communication between the conscious and the unconscious zones of the human psyche have all been cut, and we have been split in two" (Hero 388)
  • The "child within" becomes a critical agent for the health of human kind, the absolute necessary element of healthy and whole human existence. As necessary as the development of the ego is for a healthy and functioning human adult, it can also become the adult's, and indeed the world's, most obstinate obstacle.
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02 Feb 09

This column will change your life: Should we hang out with people we don't like | Life and style | The Guardian

The faintly depressing human tendency to seek out and spend time with those most similar to us is known in social science as "homophily", and it shapes our views, and our lives, in ways we're barely aware of. It explains why, if you know the political pos

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10 Apr 08

29 Worn Out Perspectives in Need of the “Oh Really?” Factor - Lifehack.org

  • what i call "received ideas" (from french) - iphigenie on 2008-04-04
  • Iphigenie says on:



    April 4th, 2008 at 12:40 pm

    I too like challenging common platitudes and received opinions like some you list here. The kind of things people say without ever thinking, the thoughts we were “fed” to think. Many of these tell “you arent capable!” “there’s no point” “its too late” “leave it to the special people”.

    I have directly or indirectly had to work with many people where I had to fight these kinds of inner thoughts… often acquired at school.


    One thing that strikes me over and over is how it takes so little to allow people to shine and empower themselves… and so little to shut them off.


    I believe that a lot of these “received ideas” were encouraged to make people stay where they are. Fit in, do what everyone does, don’t question, don’t make waves, stay in your place and for heaven’s sake don’t think for yourself or get ideas above your station like thinking you are capable to write or create or be your own person!


    Pah to that!


    It is a good idea to challenge all the messages out there dumbing people down, telling us the world is too complicated for peons like us, achievement is for special people, thinking is for the technocrats… especially us who are lucky enough to be in these “elites”.


    Challenge these ideas whenever you find them in people, and watch the people learn to shine.

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