re: #149 iceweasel

I’ll have to check that out when I’m less medicated. Sounds like there’s something to it though.
I probably wouldn’t use the word ‘spiritual’ in reference to the disorder, but maybe I would say moral disorders with political manifestations. Something like that. A highly disordered cultural ethos.

Voegelin locates the impulse at work within a disorder he characterizes as spiritual, as it’s largely a perversion (gnosticism in this sense is) of the articulation of the role and place of Man in the universe. Morality occasionally approaches this area, but is not even a secondary characteristic.

If one truly believes that the whole of the universe, society, or nation of which one is a part is fundamentally flawed (and this is what makes it dangerous - of course they’re all flawed) and that direct action by individuals or masses to correct the false order is required, and that, in principle, the problems are all solvable with the right method and will, one begins to inch toward that dangerous place.