X-Message-Number: 29158
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 06:04:42 -0800 (PST)
From: un person <>
Subject: analogizing the self-help movement and prosperity-protestanti...

a thread on cold filter referenced the trendy
self-help pop psychology movie, The Secret. 
see here:
http://www.network54.com/Forum/291677/

Response to Mutually Experienced Solipsism (sounds
sexy doesn't it)


my reply:

Yes, and speaking to my earlier reference to
prosperity christianity, preacher joel osteen's sermon
this morning is about negative, self-defeating
internal dialogs and how we can re-write them and
reprogram ourselves and thus live better lives.


this movie (THe Secret) deals with a common theme in
the prosperity gospel -- re-programming our internal
dialog.

This morning, "word of faith" preacher joel osteen is
talking about re-programming our internal dialog and
how it can help us better ourselves. Same general idea
as in The Secret.

This is what I am talking about--this is a very strong
movement in american christianity, and I think that it
has much in common with the
transhumanist-cryonicist-life extension movement. Both
are tied into the self-improvement movement.

This also speaks to the indoctrinability aspect of the
evolved primate homo sapiens sapiens. One of our
survival advantages was that our big brains are
eveolved to be indoctrinable by those at the top of
the social hierarchy, the better for us to fit into
the tribe and be able to help the tribe accomplish its
complex goals and survive. Our minds are evolved to be
programmed by others in the tribe, particularly the
leaders. However, we can take over this indoctrination
function ourselves and modl ourselves, at least to
some degree.

for more on this, see the book Darwinism, Dominance
and Democracy: The Biological Bases of
Authoritarianism by Albert Somit 


--UnPerson




 


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