You're quite welcome, and thank you for pointing me in the direction of Atwill. How interesting to suspect that Jesus and Gandhi were intentionally fashioned products of an imperial administrative class. Allow me to add another Doe to the indictment.
A college psych 101 book I perused as a child presented Kohlberg's theory of moral development, and illustrated the sixth of six stages, the late post-conventional stage, as a status definitively achieved by only three idealized exemplars. Jesus and Gandhi were the first two on the list, and MLKJr completed the set. Such a selection leads one to a lot of pointed questions about the natures of morality, autonomy, and recuperation by distinction. We know that Gandhi's and MLKJr's use of violence was downplayed in the popular mythos, and it seems not unreasonable to imagine that Jesus might have, in fact, engaged in the same sort of direct action and been posthumously subjected to the same sort of mythological laundering as we have witnessed with the other two.
That's a lot of mind blowing for a Tuesday morning. Thanks again.
You're quite welcome, and thank you for pointing me in the direction of Atwill. How interesting to suspect that Jesus and Gandhi were intentionally fashioned products of an imperial administrative class. Allow me to add another Doe to the indictment.
A college psych 101 book I perused as a child presented Kohlberg's theory of moral development, and illustrated the sixth of six stages, the late post-conventional stage, as a status definitively achieved by only three idealized exemplars. Jesus and Gandhi were the first two on the list, and MLKJr completed the set. Such a selection leads one to a lot of pointed questions about the natures of morality, autonomy, and recuperation by distinction. We know that Gandhi's and MLKJr's use of violence was downplayed in the popular mythos, and it seems not unreasonable to imagine that Jesus might have, in fact, engaged in the same sort of direct action and been posthumously subjected to the same sort of mythological laundering as we have witnessed with the other two.
That's a lot of mind blowing for a Tuesday morning. Thanks again.