Which Ethics?

[Gregory Matthews]

Many who read the following article will consider it to be not worthy of consideration.  Some will considerate to b beyond belief.  Some may become angry at what they consider to be a stupid illustration. 

If you are in the above, I will simply say that the questions posed in the last half of the article are worthy of consideration.

IF you click on the  URL Below, be prepared for the unexpected.

 

See:

http://spectrummagazine.org/article/2017/02/09/which-ethics-which-individual-revisiting-franz-kafka’s-“-metamorphosis”

 

[Gregory Matthews]

For those interested in the author that the writer of the above article cites, who died in 1924,  here is what Wikipedia says about him:

Franz Kafka^[a] (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-language writer of novels and short stories who is widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work, which fuses elements of realism and the fantastic,^[3] typically features isolated protagonists faced by bizarre or surrealistic predicaments and incomprehensible social-bureaucratic powers, and has been interpreted as exploring themes of alienation, existential anxiety, guilt, and absurdity.^[4] His best known works include "Die Verwandlung" ("The Metamorphosis"), Der Process (The Trial), and Das Schloss (The Castle). The term Kafkaesque has entered the English language to describe situations like those in his writing.^[5]

 

[CoAspen]

A lot of 'anthropologies' to get to the last paragraph! Great writing as it, (last paragraph), sums and gives a simple explanation to the above written words. Most interesting.

[debbym]

I like how the article talks about the changes that happen as we grow up.  from porous to fixed,  and the struggle when the challenges of life and the meanings of things seem to ask us to be continue to be porous, fluid.  i can see how this is resisted by the force of our social conditioning.

in the past gender identity was a static issue, black and white, and the way of dealing with it was to closet it, out of sight out of mind.  the same with mental illness, and in community homelessness, and drug addiction and aids.

We are not Jesus and we do not have sight and understanding of each individual down to the DNA and the circumstance of birth and inheritance.  so we automatically organize our relationships with others in sweeping generalities and with little flexibility.  we are so limited in the face of challenges and as variations in people in society becomes norms we will be lost if we are not connected to the greater then we are.

as we come closer to Christ i believe we are empowered to become more individual with each person, and be fluid in expressing that there is unconditional love for each one regardless of our human limitation of understanding our rigidity and categorizing.  There are people outside of our comfort zone, and it is natural to not be able to go there, but by faith we can extend the reality that God has no limitations, that the blood of Christ covers all even us in our judgmental limitations.  In this was we can retain mystery and fluidity without losing our shape and form.  it is transcendental.

Jesus transcended all our frailty and foibles and still deeply loved and died for each one, and ministers such love and grace today.

it brings me in thought to missionaries who encounter strange new societies and uncertain morays, and they turn to God through the process of culture shock and have to forsake their rigid views yet retain their faith and purpose.  these experience an education that those who do not go are greatly blessed by as it is shared.  Human beings,  we are so small and vulnerable yet through Christ utterly invincible.