{I just read that 'Sweetwater' thing. it's against group policy here to link to the execrable so you'll have to find it on your own. it does remind me why I'm glad I don't read metafilter any longer. though of course I miss a lot of what was there.
without doing any more research, an unthinkable task, speculation must serve.
Sweetwater. it's a irony. accent on the 'i'.
but the kicker for me is right behind that. all Judaic/Christian law/morality is intentionality driven. outcome means almost nothing.
it's why. why you did it. why you didn't. not what happened.
and yet every bit of the natural world, the real world, the one we hide from, crouched in these bright little caves, is only about what. why means nothing to nature.
this isn't so much a delusional mistake as it is an over-extending of crucial and necessary 'human' social organzation.
within the family, to a child, around children, to children, why is more important than what, for the most part, most of the time.
for the exception, I would point to the nomadic values of the Plains Indians, the Tuareg, the Inuit, the Tatar, but that too is mostly speculation, for more tragic reasons.
in those small groups children learn quickly that certain behaviors are terminal and must not be done, but for the most part most of the time in most of the world, children are taught, not by the harsh and unforgiving world outside the home, but in a miniaturized version of that, a workable version that allows them room to fail and rise.
but our time is filthy with psychotic irrationality, which may possibly have its part to play, genetically, it's just that I've become too tired of it. I don't want to see any more madness like this, I don't want to see it or think about it. if I have to become something I'm not to stop it, so be it, I will.
back to the discussion.
the society is an interface, between the family and the real world, and as such it combines the loving forgiveness of the family with the cold and inarguable response of the natural. this explains the urge to domination that has brought us to this precipice. the denial of natural law, its replacement by human law, and, once it's been denied and replaced, the constant desperate lunge forward of rationalizing and retro-fitting that has accompanied organized religion down to this bleak moment.
these are weak men trying to preserve, to continue, their genetic lineage. this morality of intention is vital to them. it's the underpinning of the artificial world we all now live in. that's part of the desperation of these times. it's becoming impossible to preserve the architecture.
miscarriages pass unnoticed in many women's lives, in others, the recognized pregnancies, trauma and nightmare and slow bleak healing.
miscarriages. God's little abortions.
but these are not intentional. you see? no crime. dead baby. no crime. because it wasn't on purpose.}
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...But of these sophisms and elenchs of merchandise I skill not...
Milton, Areopagitica
Except he had found the
standing sea-rock that even this last
Temptation breaks on; quieter than death but lovelier; peace
that quiets the desire even of praising it.
Jeffers, Meditation On Saviors
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