dismissal of iconoclasm as a salvation ideology

Margaret: feeling jailed
me: the weather is pleasant, you and emma-dog could go for a stroll
Margaret: sorry didn't see ya there
yep. we have.
the weather is GORGEOUS!
so what are you doing up?
me: not writing an essay dismissing iconoclasm as a salvation ideology
must be manic
Margaret: mmm..
iconoclasm?
me: but controlled. If I was truly manic I would have written the essay and sent you a link in response to your q
Iconoclasm.
Margaret: oh - i know those days
it is what?
Sent at 1:59 AM on Wednesday
Margaret: okay I looked it up.
who are we talking about here - our fearless leader's christian (ahem, I mean democracy) crusades?
me: a salvation ideology, as I understand the term, is a belief system in which you believe that all, or at least a significant subset, of your problems, will be solved, when the salvation occurs, and the salvation can be of any type --- for instance the practice dying ones hair to solve self-esteem issues
Margaret: so who is the iconoclast in this instance?
me: the problem is that the salvation does not necessarily address the underlying problem
Margaret: so someone who overthrows convention is really seeking salvation?
doesn't salvation solve all your problems - at least theoretically. its sort of the end-al solution, right?
me: although the magic correlation between salvation and relief keeps the major ones (christianity, amway) going.
yes, become an amway distributor and your problems will dissolve like so much caked-on dirt.
Margaret: ahh.. I see. So you aren't DISMISSING it as much as debunking it as not te ultimate solution - or viable
me: get videoconferencing and have better off-site meetings leading to improved workflow throughput.
my point is that I have realized that iconoclasm is also a SI
Margaret: good
me: which is a major epiphany for me and contrary to my beliefs from my late teens.
Margaret: yeah - i can see that
me: when I was a full-blown iconoclast
Margaret: no! not you!
me: i am afraid so. A classic eighties beatnik wannabe.
Margaret: oh shucks - my whole image of you is.....
well - it wasn't wrong
[smile]
you know - I think you're right.
always fighting the man to be morally superior.
me: so, applying the iconoclastic principle self-referentially and criticizing iconoclasm as a practice
Margaret: i never figured out who "da man" was, but..
me: brings us to a synthesis
Margaret: good paper
me: yeah, somebody gimme a post-doctoral research grant
Margaret: are you post-doctoral?
there are plenty o' pre-doctoral research grants....
me: i'm not post-doctoral but I play one on TV
Margaret: mmm.. my tv's been borken for over a year. perhaps that's why I missed that one
cable or basic?
me: in this synthesis, we find that iconoclasts believe that a general salvatin may occur when beliefs are abandoned
Margaret: i would agree now that I think about it
me: "I'm not a doctor but I play one on TV" is a line from an aspirin commercial featuring an actor who was in a hospital drama at the time, in the mid-nineties.
Margaret: wow. i never knew the origin of that.
i want you to come play trivia on MY team
me: apparently he was troubled by confused people buttonholing him in public places and telling him about their hemmorhoids and whatnot
Margaret: poor dude
me: i'm useless at trivia, I know neither the actor's name, the drama's name, or the pill's name, or the year.
Margaret: or a new mom or whoever.
yeah. you must be useless. [smile]
me: so, having classified iconoclasm as within the range of salvation ideologies, and taking as an axiom that salvatin idologies may be criticized as such to the point of dismissal, we may dismiss iconoclasm as a salvation ideology. Quat es demonstrandum.
the implications for ethical application are left as exercizes for the student.
Margaret: ??Quat es demonstrandum.??
me: thus it is demonstrated. Traditional closing to a geometry proof, usually abbreviated as QED.
Margaret: oh! see... QED I might have gotten. I should really learn what things actualy mean
me: i am tired and going to hit the hay. I hope your feeling of jailed does not last.
Sent at 2:18 AM on Wednesday
Margaret: me too. good night. sweet dreams

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