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Straight, Inc. and Derivatives / Chanting???
« on: January 06, 2006, 10:36:00 AM »Quote
On 2006-01-06 04:54:00, dragonfly wrote:
"Straight WAS like a monastery in a lot of ways.
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Since the tactics came from the Chinese originally, this should not be surprising.
The intent of the Chinese monasteries was to provide a SAFE place for monks to let go of their delusions of self.
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And to provide HEALTHY impetus to let go of those delusions. Those impetus work, and monks go happily about the day doing monkish things, for the purpose of monk hood.
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The Chinese Communists saw the power in this and developed it's flip side, brainwashing.
And then of course, the CIA saw the power in this and our tax dollars funded the development of a powerful machine capable of changing the minds of teenage pot smokers.
Every aspect of straight has a counterpart that can be found in a Buddhist monastery. Behavioral counterparts of course, not ideological.
The chanting you describe is just one example of the monastic roots of straight. [ This Message was edited by: dragonfly on 2006-01-06 05:09 ]"
letting go of delusions of self sounds more ideological rather than behavioral. :cry: half of all indian children in those schools died.
i reckon the koreans didn't invent brainwashing either. it seems to be common knowledge among the colonizers of the world.
in my experience, gaining a sense of self as a teenager was part of finding my own way in the world instead of accepting unquestioned indoctrination into the values and the system i saw and was troubled by. my "druggie image" was a symbolic representation in the world, part of my voice that was questioning many things that were taken for granted in this society. by denying me my own voice, literally and symbolically, straight denied me my philosophies and the outer creative expression of my visions and questions as a youth. isn't that the light of the world? the way of the artist and visionary? to interact with the world from the center of your being? i mean, that's integrity, as i see it. the root of power is acting with integrity.
so what would you say to the native americans, that somehow that forced reeducation was based on worthy values or ideologies of monasticism? that it had anything valuable to teach them? let's not get too abstract. the colonizers knew that in order to subjugate them they had to kill the indian. nothing was gained, everything was lost.