2011, vol. 1, iss. 1, pp. 147-161
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The new totalitarian society
University of Banja Luka, Republic of Srpska, B&H
Abstract
The new totalitarian society is a euphemized expression denoting the New World Order, which in itself denotes the American globalization. The underpinning of this mindset is rationality, which is characteristic of Western civilization. Christianity engendered rationality by introducing it through St. Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle, and especially formal logic. Since it is obvious that religion and logic cannot ultimately be harmonized, this combination has proven lethal in many cases throughout history. For instance, the Inquisition, which, contrary to what happened at scholastic universities, severely berated rational thinking in practice. Catholicism helped carry out genocide against the Jews, and Orthodoxy is in a certain manner tied in with Stalinism. The new totalitarian society is anchored in American Protestantism. On the whole, Christian rationalism is a sphere of science, techniques and technologies efficiently employed to promote the West to the status of a society of plenty and the conception of human rights, which turn into their opposite and irrational behavior of the worst kind. An example of such inhumanity is the attack against Yugoslavia/Serbia in 1999.
Sažetak
Novo totalitarno društvo je eufemiziran izraz za 'novi svjetski poredak', a svodi se na 'američku globalizaciju'. U osnovi svega je racionalnost koja je osnovna karakteristika zapadne civilizacije. Krišcanstvo je iznjedrilo racionalnost uvođenjem, preko sv. Tome Akvinskog, Aristotelovih djela i posebno formalne logike. Ali, pošto je očito da vjera i racionalnost ne mogu, u krajnjoj liniji, biti harmonični, onda se taj spoj, u mnogim slučajevima, pokazao povijesno kobnim. Spomenimo inkviziciju koja je, protivno onom što se događalo na skolastičkim univerzitetima, oštro sankcionirala racionalno mišljenje u praksi. Katoličanstvo je asistiralo genocidu nad Jevrejima, pravoslavlje je, na izvjestan način, vezano za staljinizam. Novo totalitarno društvo je vezano za američki protestantizam. Sve u svemu, krišćanska racionalnost koja je u oblasti nauke, tehnike i tehnologije bila izuzetno efikasna, koja je Zapad dovela do društva obilja i do koncepcije ljudskih prava, zna se prometnuti u svoju suprotnost, u iracionalno ponašanje najgore vrste. Jedan od primjera takve nehumanosti je i napad na Jugoslaviju/Srbiju 1999.
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