Reacting to Michael's posting: I find the continued loose use of 'fascism'
obfuscating. In , e.g., Mussolini's writings, we find that fascism refers
to a system of political organization based on the notion that the social
system is more important than the individual (which for people is quite
self-evidently true!). Individuals are bound together in 'fascia'. I find
that I myself am an 'ecofascist' -- that is to say , I hold the ethical
view that the health of our global environment is more important than the
desires or needs of individual people -- or of organizations like
corporations or states. In many cases it truly is "either jobs or
environment". I offer one saddening observation -- but we must brace
ourselves -- curing the diseases rampant in the world will clearly (as
Malthus said) result in a devastating poulation growth. Cure those
diseases that cause pain -- yes!, but I think we cannot afford to cure
those that cause death.
Sadly
STAN
>Dear Colleagues,
>
>Jim asked how I related my view of
>ethics in terms of integrity (completeness)
>to the History Ethic defined in my book
>Symmetry, Causality, Mind.
>
>The relation is this:
>
>I view it all as part of a theory of health.
>The word "health" comes from the same
>root in language as the word "wholeness".
>Psychological health comes from integration,
>and an essential part of this is the
>process of remembering, i.e., bringing
>the memory objects into an integrated structure
>of mind. Thus one can regard the process of
>gaining psychological health as an
>example of the History Ethic.
>
>A memory object belongs to a person,
>whether they acknowledge it or refuse
>to acknowledge it. The basis of unethical
>behavior is the individual who refuses to
>acknowledge their own memory objects.
>An example is the fascist, who lives a dissociated
>life in which, to maintain this dissociation, they
>must control all others.
>The very processes of destructive behavior
>to their own memory objects become the
>same processes by which they try to destroy
>others.
>
>So it is by refusing to remember, that the
>non-integrated person, i.e., the person without integrity,
>becomes an unethical person.
>
>best
>Michael Leyton
>
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