Föreställningen om höger och vänster skapar en form av vidskepelse? Det kamouflerar verkligheten. KD är ju statssocialister när det gäller kärnkraft. Och SD när det gäller kultur. Socialdemokraterna växlar mellan socialkonservatism och nationalkonservatism. Vänsterpartiet och Miljöpartiet är socialliberala. Den nuvarande regering i USA är den mest statssocialistiska i USAs historia. Den tar kontroll över företag, marknad och massmedia.
En blogg om att tillsammans leva det samhälle vi vill ha. Om civil olydnad, ickevåld, plogbillsrörelsen, postprotest, performativ feminism, rekursiv politik, forskning och filosofi.
18 september 2026
Höger och vänster skapar vidskepelse
17 september 2026
Mitokondrier - främlingarna är jag
Mitokondrier verkar i våra celler. De är med och producerar energi och värme. Och de reglerar ämnesomsättning. I hjärtmuskeln kan det finnas många hundra i varje cell.
14 september 2026
Rebell - Erich Fromm
Rebell fångas av det man gör uppror mot, enligt psykologen Erich Fromm. Han undersöker hur rebellen producerar attraktion till makt.1 Denna attraktion förvandlas till rebellisk läggning. Rebelliska markörer upphöjs och införlivas i ordningen. Dessutom omvandlas rebelliska symboler till varor. De kan exploateras som det senaste modet. Eller så transformeras rebell till finkultur, till den konst och musik som lanseras som verkligen autentisk och äkta. Rebell används på så vis för att producera lydnad.
Per Herngren
Fotnot
1. "There is one feature of the authoritarian character which has misled many observers: a tendency to defy authority and to resent any kind of influence from ”above”. Sometimes this defiance overshadows the whole picture and the submissive tendencies are in the background. This type of person will constantly rebel against any kind of authority, even one that actually furthers his interests and has no elements of suppression. … In persons of the first type in whom the rebellious attitude is in the centre of the picture, one is easily led to believe that their character structure is just the opposite to that of the submissive masochistic type. It appears as if they are persons who oppose every authority on the basis of an extreme degree of independence. They look like persons who, on the basis of their inner strength and integrity, fight those forces that block their freedom and independence. However, the authoritarian character’s fight against authority is essentially defiance. It is an attempt to assert himself and to overcome his own feeling of powerlessness by fighting authority, although the longing for submission remains present, whether consciously or unconsciously. The authoritarian character is never a ”revolutionary”; I should like to call him a 'rebel'." Erich Fromm, Escape From Freedom, New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1994, först publicerad 1941, s 145.11 september 2026
Satyagraha - Gandhi citat
"Satyagraha means general civil disobedience but we must develop the capacity of disobey laws." (4 december 1925)
Referens
06 september 2026
Informationsöverflöd om klimatet frestar till etisk korruption - Stephen Gardiner
Citat av Stephen Gardiner
"I take a perfect storm to involve the unusual intersection of a number of serious, and mutually reinforcing, problems, which creates an unusual and perhaps unprecedented challenge. In my metaphor of the perfect moral storm, the three problems (or “storms”) are all obstacles to our ability to behave ethically." (s 6-7)"prefer to put resources into adaptation (from which it expects benefits), rather than mitigation (which tends to benefit the future). Moreover, even within the category of adaptation, the current generation will have an incentive to prioritize projects and strategies that are more beneficial to it (e.g., temporary “quick fixes”) over those that seem best from an intergenerational point of view. In short, we should expect shadow solutions." (s 200)
"If a generation experiences a severe abrupt change, we might expect longterm concerns (such as with mitigation) to be crowded out in the finite pool of worry by more immediate concerns. We might also expect such a generation to be morally justified in ignoring those concerns, to at least some extent." (s 207)
"Under some circumstances actions that harm innocent others may be morally permissible on grounds of selfdefense, and such circumstances may arise in the climate change case." (s 40)
"it is likely to welcome any rationale that appears to justify its behavior." (s 45)
"The temptation to pass the buck on to the future, the poor, and nature is very strong. So, the incentive to disengage is high." (s 9)
