Menninger\u2019s hypothesis was that a recovery of the concept of \u201csin\u201d could be a more effective deterrent than state control of \u201ccrime\u201d.<\/p>\n
He proposed his guess at the time when the term \u201csin\u201d fell into disfavor.<\/p>\n
Menninger thought that the word \u201ccrime\u201d replaced \u201csins\u201d in many instances.<\/p>\n
The criminalization of \u201csin\u201d, however, may have been a consequence of a breakdown among families, churches, communities and guilds in the face of unrelenting changes in communication and production.\u00a0 Accusations of \u201csin\u201d no longer were effective deterrents.<\/p>\n
Advances in both \u201ctechnologies of the intellect\u201d and \u201cmodes of production\u201d set the stage for the emergence of new symbolic orders, often with horrifying consequences.<\/p>\n
The Public Cult of Progressivism in the United States, like previous Modern Cults, aims to regulate all aspects of human life in regards to political correctness.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, these regulations will be internally inconsistent (because all sorts of \u201cbuttons\u201d fit into the buttonhole of \u201cpolitical correctness\u201d).<\/p>\n
People will not know how to respond to many conflicting demands and accusations of immorality.\u00a0 Some will haphazardly find themselves subject to criminal prosecution, caught in a web of multiple rules.\u00a0 Uncertainty will prevail. \u00a0Economic activity will falter because contracts increasingly depend on the caprice of some regulator.<\/p>\n
Gorgio Agamben wrote all about this:\u00a0 He called this situation \u201cthe state of exception\u201d.<\/p>\n
Goldsmith and the Tao agree on the consequences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Menninger\u2019s hypothesis was that a recovery of the concept of \u201csin\u201d could be a more effective deterrent than state control of \u201ccrime\u201d. He proposed his guess at the time when the term \u201csin\u201d fell into disfavor. Menninger thought that the word \u201ccrime\u201d replaced \u201csins\u201d in many instances. The criminalization of \u201csin\u201d, however, may have been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-science-of-original-sin"],"yoast_head":"\n