Quote:
Originally Posted by freebeard
I feel the same way about Vietnam. I think of them as the good commies. The only other time I was elsewhere was Victoria B.C. for a day or two. They were still driving Chevy sixes with split manifolds.
|
I choose a Peterson framing of sovereign individuals possessed by bad ideas. This allows me to ally with the individual in their struggle to defeat evil ideologies.
That framing doesn't appear to me to arbitrary either, but more representative of reality. After all, bad ideas persist long after the ones afflicted by them are deceased.
Fortunately the opposite is also true, that good ideas outlive their hosts.
In that way, people don't have ideas, but ideas have people. While ideas have a dependency on people, they don't have a dependency on particular individuals. We're mere vessels of idea pathogens. Some have symbiotic relationships with their hosts, and others simply leech and cause decay.