Countries against life after death

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Michael Grosso's June 16 blog article:

Countries against life after death

I was reading an account of American movies being so popular in China.  But there are restrictions on what movies the dictatorship allows the public to watch. One forbidden movie that was mentioned surprised me—Ghost Busters!   You all remember that one—hilarious!  What’s so subversive about it? 

Even though the movie is a comedy, the idea of ghosts and life after death is forbidden, according to the government. You’re not allowed to think of anything beyond the material world. This is to consign us to a claustrophobic universe, and there are parallels in America where the constraints on what we’re allowed to think are more subtle but just as pervasive.

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Of course, Americans can and do publish good books on life after death.  But they are rarely treated with the respect or the attention they deserve by the mainstream press and academy.  The reason is that the official, dominant culture in America, as in China, is based on materialist ideology.  To be a proper citizen in the communist or the capitalist Leviathan, you must resist the temptation to think about transcendence. The State has put you in a box, and you are to stay there. The main difference between the Chinese and the American treatment is the degree of hypocrisy between them, the American surpassing the Chinese.

Read the article here:
http://consciousnessunbound.blogspot.com...death.html