tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post556500357891415225..comments2024-03-26T06:17:49.527-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: Tyranny in the AcademyStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-5399904732767392632017-03-27T03:01:12.122-07:002017-03-27T03:01:12.122-07:00https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elgF1Ofn8J0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elgF1Ofn8J0Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-8520860208810816052017-03-26T19:31:39.888-07:002017-03-26T19:31:39.888-07:00I recall a New Dimensions Program with poet Robert...I recall a New Dimensions Program with poet Robert Bly, talking about William Blake's works, and an idea Blake called "Fourfold vision."<br /><br />So my understanding is we start from single vision where you're only focused on yourself and what you want, and then double vision is where we include a worthy rival to face, and then you have a tension of opposites that can be expressed through two points of view, and then threefold vision is where sufficient common ground or mutual respect is found that rivals can begin to work together for common purpose. This can also be the union of marriage where the masculine and feminine come together in common. <br /><br />So the problem apparently is that this threefold vision is also the level that polite society stops and tries to stay and once you find common ground, you'd prefer to not go back down, and assume there will always be agreement after that, but each of us changes and grows in different ways, but most will try to suppress the differences as long as possible, and resentment and small misunderstandings start to build up, and at some point can't be ignored any longer. And this can be explained by a process of "internalizing the other" so rather than interacting with someone else as they are, you end up interacting with a projected part of yourself that represents who you see in the other and their point of view, which is no longer accurate.<br /><br />So Bly's and Blake's observations suggested if you try to stay too long in threefold vision you can't even fall back into twofold vision of a worthy rival, and narcissistic rage sends people all the way back to single vision, and they have to start all over.<br /><br />So this is where Blake's fourfold vision comes, where you step back from the illusions of agreement in three fold vision, and do your best to see things as they really are, and letting others be as they are, without making that about you. Or you could say that threefold vision is about an expanded ego, and fourfold vision pulls the ego back down to where it should be.<br /><br />Anyway, I thought about that story here, where perhaps the Universities in their quest for consensus are trying to stay in a false triple vision that isn't large enough to contain reality, and rather than questioning the limits of their social justice ideology, they prefer to purge voices that challenge their vision. And it makes sense with Blake that this motive sinks them back to the bottom of single vision, where rivals aren't even worthy adversaries to debate, but are only wrong-heard people who can't be safely dialogued with.<br /><br />And I believe Bly said that this single-vision is contagious so as soon as one side falls to that level, it's almost impossible for the other side to avoid their own version of it, and both sides can retreat, convinced they have won the argument while dismissing the opposition, and blind to their own fall.<br /><br />I'm glad Haidt is being discussed, and perhaps his call for Universities to declare their mission for "Social justice" OR "Truth". So that's an honest attempt to allow the social justice warriors their own home ground, while kicking them out of other grounds, and let the "markets" of public opinion (or university patrons) decide their merits to continue.<br /><br />It is a curious division, and no one would claim they're against truth, but somehow every has a different idea what truth is, at least once you leave the hard sciences of Newton's sleep. It's easy to see where moral relativism comes from when everything that hold society together is deconstructed and arbitrary and irrelevant. I mean its the opposite side of the "free market", let everyone do whatever they want, there's no authority, and hope for the best. And that's where we are, just in time for the chaos as fiat-currency inspired globalization fails us.<br />Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-62726173401566647472017-03-26T10:38:45.648-07:002017-03-26T10:38:45.648-07:00The conservative students could claim victimhood, ...The conservative students could claim victimhood, legitimately, and ought to, just to mess with what minds their opponents claim to have. They won't of course.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-10434045966077504162017-03-26T08:35:31.856-07:002017-03-26T08:35:31.856-07:00This is what I've been saying. We are seeing a...This is what I've been saying. We are seeing a strange mix of the old Inquisition with a good bit of the Chinese "Cultural Revolution". <br />Don't forget the Cardinal wore red.Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13642228725661059539noreply@blogger.com