from Martin Buber: 'The real struggle is not between east or west,
or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda.'
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Martin_Buber
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(53,235 posts)oligarchies. If you can swallow that (no matter what religion, except, of course, Pastafarianism), you can swallow anything.
And that religion thing is one of the most powerful tools in the toolbox.
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(118,041 posts)namely, the distinction between our relations with objects and our relations with other individuals who can engage with us in meaningful ways
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(118,041 posts)are fundamentally different from I-he or I-she or I-it relations, and this he regards as the essential starting point of what he considers true religion
One important linguistic distinction here has disappeared from modern English usage, though it still exists in some other languages: it is the distinction that once occurred in English as thou-versus-you and still occurs in German as du-versus-Sie, that is, the distinction between familiar addressing that reflects close personal relationship, as opposed to formal addressing