Fundamentalism is not only, as it tends to look nowadays, a religious concept. Its essence is the belief of an universal and supreme order that has to be uphold by the ones who believe in it and applied to humanity for ever. In such a view, all other beliefs have no place to be.
As defined in the Oxford Dictionary, it means:
"strict adherence to the basic principles of any subject or discipline:
Ex: free-market fundamentalism
Fashion can be a fundamentalism as much as religion, in the women's world, as can be a soccer team, a rhum bottle, a stamp collection, whispering on the other's wrongs (or perceived as such), playing cards, leading a 'team' ... In a word, fundamentalism can be found from 'heaven' to darkness.
What do one do everytime he wakes up ? Remember, remember what he has to do because this is who he is. And what does one remember ???
What makes him live, his past, his nation, nis factory, his car, his cigarettes, his passed or what he wanted to achieve tens of years ago. One does not create his life but is accomplishing the destiny he himself sorted out of false views in an upside down world.
By force, and by nature (because women are the hardest fundamentalists), what man wants is what society wants, no less, no more. And he has taught himself and his children to be satisfied with this, well ... this ignorance as a legacy.
The same idea is behing the gay 2012 'weddings' and the 'marriages of convenience' of old, the idea that what's man decide is better than letting nature and circumstances do the job, the idea that man is king, that man has to fight or improve nature, that there is no 'providence': "I know best, end.".
What do one do everytime he wakes up ? Remember, remember what he has to do because this is who he is. And what does one remember ???
What makes him live, his past, his nation, nis factory, his car, his cigarettes, his passed or what he wanted to achieve tens of years ago. One does not create his life but is accomplishing the destiny he himself sorted out of false views in an upside down world.
By force, and by nature (because women are the hardest fundamentalists), what man wants is what society wants, no less, no more. And he has taught himself and his children to be satisfied with this, well ... this ignorance as a legacy.
The same idea is behing the gay 2012 'weddings' and the 'marriages of convenience' of old, the idea that what's man decide is better than letting nature and circumstances do the job, the idea that man is king, that man has to fight or improve nature, that there is no 'providence': "I know best, end.".
Alexandre Dumas, Sylvandire T1
Honor, for Europe's aristocracy, for a thousand years culminating at the beginning of the 19th century, was such a fundamentalism, but one that despite its aberrations tended to a high moral ground, in theory, but on the contrary of it most of the time.
Fundamentalism has been, since the first kingdoms on earth in Mesopotamia, Egypt or elsewhere at the time, some 5000 years ago, the deepest driving force rooted in man's soul.
Fundamentalism is, basically :
"better what we know, even wrong, than what we don't know"
Fundamentalism is idolatry
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| Yabahya, daughter of Sargon II, Nimrud, Iraq, 9.bc |
