{"id":318,"date":"2013-03-21T21:23:08","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T21:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/75.103.96.165\/blog\/?p=318"},"modified":"2014-10-07T23:02:38","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T23:02:38","slug":"thoughts-on-sin-by-ted-peters-1994-anxiety-2c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=318","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on Sin by Ted Peters (1994) Anxiety 2C"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Becker\u2019s book <em>The Structure of Evil<\/em> (1968) envisioned a \u201cpremodern\u201d world where everything \u2013 and everyone \u2013 knew their place.\u00a0 This \u201cpremodern\u201d world possessed a unified view of humanity.\u00a0 This was a world based on power, tyranny, coercion, and benevolent paternalism.\u00a0 This world precluded personal freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Since there were no options, according to Becker, there would have been no \u201canxiety\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Although his visionary \u201cpremodern\u201d world could have been compared to Utopia Past (Fascism), Utopia Present (Communism, which lingers on) or Utopia Yet To Come (Progressivism), Becker compared it to the Medieval World.\u00a0 I mean, he compared it to his bogus stereotype of the Medieval World.\u00a0 As I mentioned earlier, he should have located his \u201cpremodern\u201d world in a more Rousseau-ian vision of the \u201cprecivilized\u201d world of polymorphous ownership.\u00a0 Without \u201cprivate property\u201d, not even your life is your own, so why worry about what you could have had?<\/p>\n<p>Before Civilization, humans lived without anxiety because they had real challenges to worry about.\u00a0 Even to the Medieval Europeans, the Paleolithic and Neolithic peoples would have seemed desperately poor.\u00a0 At the same time, they did not know any better.\u00a0 They were pathetically happy in that regard.\u00a0 Even the Neolithic woman who got painfully arthritic toes from her posture while grinding meal did not know any better.<\/p>\n<p>Surely, their own mythologies and wisdom counseled joy in suffering.\u00a0 The world before Civilization would have been the ultimate vacation spot, a place that Disney could never hope to imitate, because these people never pretended to be what they were not. \u00a0They were truly free in that regard.\u00a0 They belonged.\u00a0\u00a0 They loved one another without reservation.\u00a0 They barbequed.\u00a0 They ate the (now repopularized) Paleolithic diet.\u00a0 They fought, drank, and pissed wherever they wanted.\u00a0 You helped your own because you knew that they would return the favor.\u00a0 On the other hand, if even one tourist had shown up, it would have been over.<\/p>\n<p>The society of hand-speech talk was a world where there was evil, but no anxiety, because they could not formula an idea of \u201cwhat they could have had\u201d.\u00a0 They did not know any different.<\/p>\n<p>And perhaps, this was what Becker would have imagined, if he had lived the life that he could have had.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Becker\u2019s book The Structure of Evil (1968) envisioned a \u201cpremodern\u201d world where everything \u2013 and everyone \u2013 knew their place.\u00a0 This \u201cpremodern\u201d world possessed a unified view of humanity.\u00a0 This was a world based on power, tyranny, coercion, and benevolent paternalism.\u00a0 This world precluded personal freedom. 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