unclepercy said:
PoisonPete2 said:
Not the type of history I am thinking about. See, that's what the article was about - how beliefs and thinking processes differ according to history. I believe that personal life history is more significant than global history in determining your belief system.
If you were raped as a child, this will affect your life prognosis more than if you read in the paper that a child was raped in India.
Life history. Not propaganda.
Just a different perspective.
Uncle
Answer - you obviously did not read my post with any level of understanding, nor did you understand the original article. It is about accepting concensus over personal experience. I merely extrapolated on the view. It is about writing of the past in the zietgiest of the present. Nothing new or groundbreaking about the analysis, just in its application in the New World context.
This article, many ethnoanthropoligists, my view and the proponderance of philosophers and historiographers would take exception to your view that 'personal life history is more significant than global history in determining your belief system.' Much research and theory suggests that personal experience is most often abdicated in favour of group consensus. Check out 'false memories' research. The most powerful cult in our society to ensure this occurs are called Psychiatrists. It is the very basis of Propaganda. And Propaganda is so effective because it feeds into our bio/social makeup. To discover how 'socialized' your perception is, you would have to emmerse yourself into a distinctive other culture. And then note the difficulty in realigning to your former culture.
Don't try to snow me with big words. Proximity is the biggest factor in determining who you are and what you will become.
I can assure you that Canada had absolutely no bearing on how I turned out. I live in a different culture, and with the advent of the nuclear family - each family is an isolated group unto itself.
There was essentially no global history in my unbringing. Don't talk
to me about propaganda - this is word from the 1950's.
Now I admit that with better communication (instantaneous now)
global news would be more likely to affect group concensus. But from my personal experience, no one gives a rat's ass about what others think, except teenagers. We grew up. We live in a confident society where we agree on most of the basic ideological framework. For example, it is perfect fine to mention God, prayer, church, religion, etc. anytime.
The only slightly taboo subject in American is sex. Older people feel uncomfortable talking about it, and so they don't. That is accepted. Americans generally agree on what is normal behavior and what is not.
You did not read my post with any level of understanding. And this is what the article is saying. We are coming from different life experiences. We agree that skunks smell bad. We agree on a lot of things. But there are many things I don't know about you,
and vise versa.
THIS I KNOW - what happens to you personally is far more pertinent in your personality development than what happened to Gertrude in Germany. Proximity determines who your friends will be, who you will marry, what language you will speak, what you eat....Nature determines what you look like, if you are a night person, if you are allergic to milk, etc.
But also important is what your parents (or caregivers) gave to you during your childhood. Where they there when you needed them?
This is the central question that all adults talk about when they look back on their childhoods.
Proximity, genetics, and upbringing. That's what is important in personality development. You are hung up on background music.
Uncle
