Your Lesson for Today

[Revere2]

Remember the simple illustrative story by Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)? Tom Sawyer, (a 'widow's son'), was given the dull chore of white-washing a long picket fence by his aunt. But young Tom was shrewd. As boys passed by seeing him working, he made a great show of whisting happily as if he was having a wonderful time. As boys don't like chores adults give them, the boys were curious why Tom seemed to be having such a good time and asked him why he looked so happy.

Tom of course told them that painting a fence is the most fun you can have with your clothes on, and soon the target would say, "hey, let me try it!" Tom would resist at first, till the boys were insisting or begging to to get to paint a while.

Before long he had many boys happily working away at his chore, while he wasn't working at all.

In 'corporate culture' Tom's technique is called 'motivational training'. Taken a notch up it's called 'teamwork', which adds the feature of competition to 'get' to do the task 'better' than the other slaves. (for which you get a gold 'star').

But taken to the tribal--national or race level, by adult 'widows sons', it's called Ideology.

ALL Ideologies are based on make believe. Individuals don't need an ideology to be individuals, because we already have intrinsic human instinct for self-preservation and survival. Ideology invariably introduces an artificial 'universal' for the masses, and always there's a heirarchy present--with their own Tom Sawyer's sitting in the capstone, usually unseen.

Communism, Fascism, Corporate Capitalism, and Zionism are all the stuff of make-believe. Individuals join the group at the bottom believing the new ideology will give them the power of strength in numbers, and pretty soon they're alliegance is to the imaginary 'tribe' instead of the individual and family.

The reality of all the above 'ism' ideologies, it's the same bankers sitting above in the capstone.

[yamahonkawazuki]

okay, if you say so 

[Absolute Rescue]

Very interesting post. Can you explain "--with their own Tom Sawyer's sitting in the capstone, usually unseen."
I mean why do you think they remain unseen. I would think it was just the opposite. One would think that even the current leaders of our country are at least trying to be the Tom Sawyer's. They are [trying to] lead[ing] us to believe that we are better because of....(you fill in the blank). Or am I missing something?

[CasiUSA]

Sociological ideology is just as real as religious ideology.
By your definition, Conservatism, Liberalism, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, or Freedom are all the stuff of make believe.

That's why they're called ideologies and not facts.

[yamahonkawazuki]

ehh i could say the same about evoluytion, but ive got a weird view on that, based on its theory and its fact

[bombadillo]

 

[annguyen1981]

yeah....

post too long...

tried to skim through to pick out points...  failed...

didn't read.

thankz for the effort tho.


lol