Dale Nelson Wrote:
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> Sawfish Wrote:
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> > In your usage, however, the closest easy
> > comparison is "political correctness".
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> Sociology is properly a tool whose real value is
> limited to certain types of applications.
> Sociological consciousness is a worldview, the
> dominant one in the English-speaking world and the
> West.
> Political correctness is a militant ideology, a
> Leftist manifestation of sociological
> consciousness that could prove temporary while
> sociological consciousness remained entrenched.
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I'm trying, further, to say that this modern habit of thought is not the only form of consciousness human beings have experienced and though it's what prevails now, it's not in the best interests of us all to occupy ourselves with it.
It seems to me that even quite recently a more poetic consciousness was at work in ordinary human relationships, in literature and the fine arts, etc. It may be seen in writers as different as Joseph Conrad and Jane Austen. Poetic consciousness doesn't ignore "man in society" but does not restrict itself to sociological categorization.
I'd say that sociological consciousness is post-modernist in that it either denies, or de-emphasizes the spiritual non-material aspect of existence, focusing more on the individual experience as grounded in a materialistic conception of the cosmos, which is a valid way to view things, since were are bound irretrievably to the subjective experience. However, it is valid only for, and within, that individual, and is basically unsharable. It is a manifestation of the individual will. If this is true, portraying it as anything other than an expression of an individual's will is at best disingenuous.
If true, then poetic consciousness attempts to focus on those subjective experiences that are sometimes commonly shared--if not in the same instant in time, then at least when considered in retrospect. it is like recalling and sharing the experience of one's first sexual kiss. It will not be identical, but the over-arching experience will have points of commonality.
I take it that this example is poetic consciousness?
--Sawfish
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