betasam's Journal: Brotherhood and Fellows'hip

There are several clubs and organisations operating in my town, enjoying good membership. At least three of these organisations are built to propogate universal brotherhood and charity. Each of the organisations I am referring to have their principles (which remain unknown, unfathomed an unexplored by over 85% of members and are slowly being lost for ever; I have had the sad opportunity of seeing this happen before me.)

So why join such an organisation at all? The most common reason for people getting together in such organisations is to enjoy many a drink with comrades in a neutral location (many a time, at someone else's expense.) Intellectual conversation is a regular absentee, more frequent then regular absentees. Slowly this makes the intellectual person either lose faith and leave or lose his intellect to a liquor. This deranged following of alcoholic fellowship once led a Doctor to talk about how a male hip is different from a female hip during a meeting. Partially it was a joke, but on the other part it was frustration vented out.

Charity and Brotherhood are farce definitions to these people, the only time I can see people uniting is when they are ganging up to trouble, irritate or derail a common foe. I call this ganging (not unity or brotherhood.) Any similarities to Nazi Germany here? The resultant is a slow injection of disbelief in morality, ethics and principle into strong advocates and followers of them.

Well, what's the answer? I'm coming to set ya right and you're not gonna like this one bit! It'll be like setting a dislocated shoulder, it'll hurt. - IATIA (This volcanic venting has been inspired after reading Wittgenstein; although I don't quote him here.)