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Yair Zameret
Ethics, Scapegoating and Pseudo-Left - The Strange Story of an Israeli Scapegoat
Ethics, Scapegoating and Pseudo-Left - The Strange Story of an Israeli Scapegoat
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Ethics, scapegoating, and the pseudo-left - The strange story of an Israeli scapegoat (a summary)
The essay defines, describes and analyzes two terms which are quite uncommon in public discussion:
The physiological-psychological ‘Scapegoating’, and the socio-political ‘Pseudo-Left’. Both terms are known, but receive in the essay a new meaning, as well as new centrality and importance. According to the essay they both are vital to understanding and dealing with the sources of suffering and evil in today’s world.
The essay consists of three parts, each one of them a stand-alone, yet connected to the other.
The first part describes the formation of human ethics, and its main points are the following:
* The formation of human cognizance and self-cognizance, and the inevitable emergence of their evolutional-(accidental) byproduct – the human ethical awareness.
* The ‘pre-ethical hunter-gatherers Eden’, in which ethical potential already existed, but had not yet been implemented, along with the ‘Neolithic revolution’ (the domestication of animals and plants 10,000 years ago, and the formation of the first city-states 7,000 years ago), and the formation of the first widespread slavery as an inevitable result of this revolution.
* The first realization of the ethical potential, as a response to the newly widespread institution of slavery, manifested by the unprecedented, revolutionary Hebrew-Israeli ethical agenda of the second millennium B.C.
The second part describes the appearance of the institution of Scapegoat/Scapegoating (the creation of scapegoats and the projection of the ethical faults of the scapegoaters upon them), as an inevitable, vital ‘physiological-psychological antidote’ to the unbearable guilt suffering caused by the new ethical agenda. Then described in the chapter the expansion of the institution from the localized Israeli groups throughout the entire world, until becoming one of the most influential institutions in human history ever, and the huge damages this expansion causes.
Major emphasis is given in the chapter to the connection between Scapegoating and the Freudian defense mechanisms. No less emphasis is given to the uniqueness and differences from these mechanisms.
Another major emphasis is placed upon the ‘illusiveness’ (‘catchiness’) of scapegoating, and the tremendous obstacle this illusiveness creates in the ability to recognize, understand and treat the damaging mechanism.
The third part deals with the scapegoat-driven socio-political phenomenon of the Pseudo-Left which popped up in the post-WWII West. Described in the chapter is the connection of this pseudo-left with the scapegoating mechanism, as well as its connections with two other Western elements - the Media, and the immanent, deep anti-ethical drive of the Western crowd.
Also described in the chapter is the crucial role of the pseudo-leftist leader, and an explanation of the enormous damage it causes nowadays to world’s democratization and humanization efforts.
The essay ends with two appendixes:
One is a ‘Self Test appendix’ which brings several ‘real-life’ examples for the differences between real and ‘pseudo’ Lefs, and the other lists possibilities to confronting the damaging institution.
Ethics, scapegoating, and the pseudo-left - The strange story of an Israeli scapegoat (a summary)
The essay defines, describes and analyzes two terms which are quite uncommon in public discussion:
The physiological-psychological ‘Scapegoating’, and the socio-political ‘Pseudo-Left’. Both terms are known, but receive in the essay a new meaning, as well as new centrality and importance. According to the essay they both are vital to understanding and dealing with the sources of suffering and evil in today’s world.
The essay consists of three parts, each one of them a stand-alone, yet connected to the other.
The first part describes the formation of human ethics, and its main points are the following:
* The formation of human cognizance and self-cognizance, and the inevitable emergence of their evolutional-(accidental) byproduct – the human ethical awareness.
* The ‘pre-ethical hunter-gatherers Eden’, in which ethical potential already existed, but had not yet been implemented, along with the ‘Neolithic revolution’ (the domestication of animals and plants 10,000 years ago, and the formation of the first city-states 7,000 years ago), and the formation of the first widespread slavery as an inevitable result of this revolution.
* The first realization of the ethical potential, as a response to the newly widespread institution of slavery, manifested by the unprecedented, revolutionary Hebrew-Israeli ethical agenda of the second millennium B.C.
The second part describes the appearance of the institution of Scapegoat/Scapegoating (the creation of scapegoats and the projection of the ethical faults of the scapegoaters upon them), as an inevitable, vital ‘physiological-psychological antidote’ to the unbearable guilt suffering caused by the new ethical agenda. Then described in the chapter the expansion of the institution from the localized Israeli groups throughout the entire world, until becoming one of the most influential institutions in human history ever, and the huge damages this expansion causes.
Major emphasis is given in the chapter to the connection between Scapegoating and the Freudian defense mechanisms. No less emphasis is given to the uniqueness and differences from these mechanisms.
Another major emphasis is placed upon the ‘illusiveness’ (‘catchiness’) of scapegoating, and the tremendous obstacle this illusiveness creates in the ability to recognize, understand and treat the damaging mechanism.
The third part deals with the scapegoat-driven socio-political phenomenon of the Pseudo-Left which popped up in the post-WWII West. Described in the chapter is the connection of this pseudo-left with the scapegoating mechanism, as well as its connections with two other Western elements - the Media, and the immanent, deep anti-ethical drive of the Western crowd.
Also described in the chapter is the crucial role of the pseudo-leftist leader, and an explanation of the enormous damage it causes nowadays to world’s democratization and humanization efforts.
The essay ends with two appendixes:
One is a ‘Self Test appendix’ which brings several ‘real-life’ examples for the differences between real and ‘pseudo’ Lefs, and the other lists possibilities to confronting the damaging institution.
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