Paul, thank you for this post and your writings in general.
I hope to get more viewers to you.
I have your "The Soul" and it is a mine of a mind that has been and will continue to be mined for its valuable ores--the depth of the shaft of your learning is admirable.
Those "cruellest" minds you have mined as in this essay should remind us (what's a MetaFor?) of the (in)Human inheritance of “Obedience to Authority” that has caused such murder and mayhem as exampled by the Crusades.
Imagine: “to die fighting for Christ – now that was a manly kind of martyrdom!”
And such Self-Sacrifice continues to this day for whatever “Greater Good” is posed to the voluntarily (mindlessly) enlisted cannon fodder.
I have not yet found in your writings or public videos a mention of Child Abuse and Neglect as factors involved with human violence and Obedience to Authority.
If you have not yet, I hope you will educate yourself in the “Nightmare of History” of Child Abuse and Neglect as the origin of human violence.
Also have you studied Julian Jaynes’ work? I consider this too has much to help us understand and ultimately correct humanity’s self/other destructive propensity.
Here is my latest Substack containing both Lloyd and Julian references.
Paul, thank you for this post and your writings in general.
I hope to get more viewers to you.
I have your "The Soul" and it is a mine of a mind that has been and will continue to be mined for its valuable ores--the depth of the shaft of your learning is admirable.
Those "cruellest" minds you have mined as in this essay should remind us (what's a MetaFor?) of the (in)Human inheritance of “Obedience to Authority” that has caused such murder and mayhem as exampled by the Crusades.
Imagine: “to die fighting for Christ – now that was a manly kind of martyrdom!”
And such Self-Sacrifice continues to this day for whatever “Greater Good” is posed to the voluntarily (mindlessly) enlisted cannon fodder.
I have not yet found in your writings or public videos a mention of Child Abuse and Neglect as factors involved with human violence and Obedience to Authority.
If you have not yet, I hope you will educate yourself in the “Nightmare of History” of Child Abuse and Neglect as the origin of human violence.
Here for Lloyd deMause and Psychohistory: https://psychohistory.com/
Also have you studied Julian Jaynes’ work? I consider this too has much to help us understand and ultimately correct humanity’s self/other destructive propensity.
Here is my latest Substack containing both Lloyd and Julian references.
https://responsiblyfree.substack.com/p/free-friends-forum-47-born-to-obey
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Hi Jack,
Delighted to hear you've got a copy of The Soul. I hope some of it resonates.
Thank you for your comments. Much appreciated.
I shall investigate the writers and links, and the references you have provided - and read your substack!
Best wishes
Paul
Just sent you message on chat to email me to link up: responsiblyfree@protonmail.com
You know Wilfred Owen as I do (from your 1914--The Year the World Ended)"
"My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori."
Let us help others stop believing and dying for that Old Lie
My Substack on this:
FOR U.S. MEMORIAL DAY: WHAT IF THEY HAD A WAR & NOBODY CAME? NO MORE SACRIFICIAL LAMBS; NO MORE INFANTS AS INFANTRY.
THE ORIGINS OF WAR IN CHILD ABUSE & THE PEACEFUL PARENTING PARADIGM
https://responsiblyfree.substack.com/p/what-if-they-had-a-war-and-nobody