2006-10-09 01:37:15 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Yes, it has the potential.
Brainwashing to further extremism, fundamentalism, terrorism etc. has already brought us to the brink of disaster.
When rational thinking is sent on a holiday, what is it that drives us? We are then driven by emotion and group/mob mentality. We know it only too well as to what damage can occur even at an individual level, if one allows emotion to dictate action. No great power of deduction is called for to imagine what can happen when repression of rational thought is undertaken on a large scale covering various groups, sects etc.
2006-10-09 02:08:49 · answer #1 · answered by small 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Rationality refuses to be repressed by anything except the seven sins the world is suffering from.
Not the repression of rational thought, but the existence of stupid ones that kick the rational ones out of our minds.
Not all repression of rational thought is bad, it is the most irrational emotion that exists that keep the numbers of our species up, though that might be a small threat to mankind.
The lack of rationality would be one of the bigger threats to mankind, but the repression will not be a threat to mankind until the repression is complete, for that is when all rationality has been lost.
2006-10-09 09:03:24 · answer #2 · answered by lkraie 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Repression of rational thought implies that there is someone out there controlling your mind. Despite the hysterics from the far left, there is nobody with the power to control your mind except yourself. The threat to mankind is the fact that fewer and fewer people refuse to think and act on their own behalf, preferring a nanny state government to take over the day to day responsibilities that were once taken for granted to be the responsibility of the family. Keep me safe, give me free health care, educate my kids for me, shield me from anything offensive, give me information from experts, and above all, keep me entertained, and I'll turn off my brain and live my life on autopilot is the cry of the common person today.
I wish only to have the faith, abilities, and knowledge of the simple farmer 200 years ago. People who could build their own home, grow and store their own food, teach their own children, fend for themselves through tough times, and think far more independently than we do today.
As a people we are not being repressed. We are doing it to ourselves.
2006-10-09 08:48:34 · answer #3 · answered by Spy Girl 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Repress rational thoughts make people spend money, a lot more than they could afford. So repression is good for society, but bad for the individual.
2006-10-09 08:46:36 · answer #4 · answered by mac 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Rational thought is not repressed and probably never will be.
Only rational public speaking is repressed.
2006-10-09 08:44:03 · answer #5 · answered by master_betty_101 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
In some ways, repression is advancing an account of valid and fallacious inference and allows one to distinguish logical from flawed arguments.
2006-10-09 15:45:26 · answer #6 · answered by Giggly Giraffe 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Do you not see communism is failing miserably all over the world? If communism was not suppression of rational thought what else is?
2006-10-09 09:34:30 · answer #7 · answered by Brahmanda 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To me, the threat is that too many have no idea what it is, and don't care to learn. It allows public villains to do what ever they want.
2006-10-09 08:47:16 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
no, a growing economy is. think about it. Pyramid schemes, big buisness, the methodical destruction of nature to build places to make money and create crappy jobs for the common man.
2006-10-09 13:20:03 · answer #9 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No Hillary Duff is.
2006-10-09 08:39:20 · answer #10 · answered by J D 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋