Category Archives: Our current Lebenswelt is not the Lebenswelt that we evolved in

Human psychology evolved under in the social milieu of constrained complexity. Currently, humans live in unconstrained complexity. What has this done to our minds? These topics are addressed in various parts of An Archaeology of the Fall, particularly in chapters 8C and 11B.

07/12/17

Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 DJ

[In both Russian and American materialist ideologies, wealthy property owners are ill intentioned bad ones, who achieved their excess through exploitation.

The bad ones victimize the well-intentioned good ones.

Both Parties represent the good ones.

Both Parties identify and destroy the bad ones.

The contenders are not that different in terms of ideology.

Their mythology is almost identical.

However, they differ in the peoples that they demonically possess.]

07/11/17

Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 DI

[The American Progressive Union Godhead embodies this potential:

Liberty (without property is not liberty at all)

Equality (without equal property is not equality at all)

Fraternity (among the members of the Parties of Progressivism. Party members administer programs aiming for liberty and equality, challenging the exploiters, the property owners who obviously attained their property by victimizing the good ones.)]

07/10/17

Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 DH

[The Russian Soviet Communist Godhead embodies this potential:

Liberty (of the state to own all property)

Equality (of all citizens in state ownership of property, with the party speaking for the citizens)

Fraternity (among members of the Communist Party. Party members assure liberty and equality, and challenge the bourgeois, who are the source of all failure.)]

07/5/17

Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 DE

Summary of text [comment] page 82

[Today, certain semiotic scholastics may be labeled post-modern.

In the same way, I call certain enlightenment and modern thinkers post-religionist.

Schoonenberg is not a post-religionist (enlightenment) thinker.

He is a modern who witnessed the horrors of modernism.

He tries to find a way out of the interpellation of the post-religionist (enlightenment) godheads.

Unfortunately, he writes right at the time when a new set of enlightenment gods enter into conflict.

In 1960, the conflict rages between two ideologies of materialism: Soviet Communism and Big Government Liberalism.]

06/7/17

Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 CL

[Today, in the third and fourth generation after Schoonenberg wrote, ‘the symbolic order of big government liberalism’ is … unzipping.

Schoonenberg aimed to show that another Scriptural contrast, ‘the whole person against God’s law’, could support the actuality of the term ‘concupiscence’.

Today, his work stands in testimony to fully zipped Modernism.]

05/23/17

Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 CB

[These scenarios dramatically increase the weirdness of New Testament.

God’s Incarnation occurred precisely at the juncture when oppositions within the Jewish and Roman societies were … um … unzipping.

Their languages were coming undone.

Their political systems were fundamentally transforming.

Jesus preached to third generation.

His resurrection was preached to the fourth.]

05/22/17

Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 CA

[In the early 7760s, Schoonenberg wrote on the cusp.

During and after the second battle of the enlightenment gods (The Hot Battle of the Fraternalist Ideologies: 7738-7745 U0’). A Progressive religion attained sovereign power in the USA. It had not consolidated power. It was the first generation of a new idolatry.

Schoonenberg was unaware that a change in the symbolic order constitutes an opening of the mythos.

In the USA, big government liberalism changed the meaning of the words of classical liberalism. Big government liberalism won the third battle of the enlightenment gods (The Cold Battle of the Materialist Ideologies 7745-7789 U0’). The American people lost that battle. Classical liberalism was eclipsed.

It does not matter what causes the change of a symbolic order, whether a discrepancy between lawdenial and lawacceptance, bureaucratic veiling of original meanings, apparent contradictions within the symbolic order itself, God punishing the iniquity of the parents in later generations, two civilizations making contact, the trauma of plague or war, migrations, and so on. The change in the symbolic order is mythic.

The system of differences changes.

Language changes.

Confusion deepens.

Novel meanings, presences and messages are revealed.]