Respectable is ridiculous. Credentials and experience are not. We live in a Fallen, fake, flawed Bourgeois world. Covid-19 is fraud. Virology is fraud. However telling truth is a matter of skillful means which is why in Antiquity parables taught profound truth and trivial truths spoken. To be honest I cannot envisage Rappaport having the street cred to speak to the fearful masses. Mass formation psychosis IS CIVILIZATION per se.
As Berdyaev says:
Authority is the typical product of objectification, the typical product of a mass of
human subjects, the typical symbolization of the subjects’ spiritual state, of their
servility, spiritual immaturity, self-abstraction. The part played by authority in the
history of social life is tremendous. But in the sphere of authentic spiritual reality God
is in no sense an authority; nor is revelation, for in that sphere there is no objectivity
to condition the symbolical illusion of authority. In his uncertainty man seeks an
authority on which he can rely; but such an authority is merely the product of his
weakness, the projection of his subjectivity, of his failure to discover another,
concretely-universal world. As it happens, authority does nothing to free man from his
prison. The interpretation of anything in terms of external objectivity implies man’s
limitation and inability to transcend himself. Authority is the tyranny of the generic
Respectable is ridiculous. Credentials and experience are not. We live in a Fallen, fake, flawed Bourgeois world. Covid-19 is fraud. Virology is fraud. However telling truth is a matter of skillful means which is why in Antiquity parables taught profound truth and trivial truths spoken. To be honest I cannot envisage Rappaport having the street cred to speak to the fearful masses. Mass formation psychosis IS CIVILIZATION per se.
As Berdyaev says:
Authority is the typical product of objectification, the typical product of a mass of
human subjects, the typical symbolization of the subjects’ spiritual state, of their
servility, spiritual immaturity, self-abstraction. The part played by authority in the
history of social life is tremendous. But in the sphere of authentic spiritual reality God
is in no sense an authority; nor is revelation, for in that sphere there is no objectivity
to condition the symbolical illusion of authority. In his uncertainty man seeks an
authority on which he can rely; but such an authority is merely the product of his
weakness, the projection of his subjectivity, of his failure to discover another,
concretely-universal world. As it happens, authority does nothing to free man from his
prison. The interpretation of anything in terms of external objectivity implies man’s
limitation and inability to transcend himself. Authority is the tyranny of the generic
over the individual principle.