Jagat

I THINK THIS IS NOT MY ARTICLE The main point of contention seems to be the question of whether the distinction between the two general personality types is on of superiority/inferiority, human/reptilian, evolved/unevolved, or just of different strokes for different folks. The first question I ask is "who is the audience?" "Who am I speaking to?" Clearly most but certainly not all Hare Krishnas fit into a category that is close to the right-winger stereotype. There has been quite a bit of public reporting about the difference between people on the right of the political spectrum and those on the left . Mystified Musings on the Ongoing Dumb-pocalypse Scientists now apply insights from experimental psychology, linguistics, and neuroscience to the differences between liberals and conservatives. Their findings offer some hints to explain why appeals to rage, fear, and conspiracy theories are so effective in attracting political support and in short-circuiting peop...

One thing I have noticed about the Western Krishna conscious movement is that most devotees (older ones at least) are progressive politically, due to their radical stance as youthful hippies against the "establishment culture." This is unusual, on one sense, because Srila Prabhupada was VERY conservative, politically as well as socially. At one time or another, he said things that showed racist, fascist, anti-feminist, libertarian, anti-taxation and corporatist leanings. His preaching in India was geared towards business elites. How hippies came to adopt leadership from this quarter is a curious matter in itself and worthy of investigation. Let us say that they were in search of a radical alternative to the established dominant culture in Western society, and the hedonistic and libertine counterculture of the time had proved an abject failure experimentally. Prabhupada also fed conspiracist and apocalyptic tendencies amongst devotees--the coming of WWIII, the moon landi...