[161] Public Relations -- White/Black/Consumption Guilt -- Conscience Masturbation: Egotist Consumptionism, Idiot Compassion & Lifestyle Activism: [162]
Forms of Public Relations – White/Black/Consumption Guilt – Conscience
Masturbation include Egotist Consumptionism - Cultural Capitalism at its purist – which psychologically relates to (i) what Trungpa Rinpoche and Pema Chodron, referred to as Idiot Compassion; and (ii) what many refer to as the Egotist Delusion problems created, rather than solved by Lifestyle Activism and Lifestyle Politics. [163]
Zizek refers to Egotist Consumptionism as Cultural Capitalism at its Purist:
Where the very act of egotist consumption - buying 'free trade' coffee, going on an 'ecotourist' holiday -- already includes the price for its opposite. In the very consumerist act, you buy your redemption from only being a consumerist. [164]
Tibetan
Buddhist
Master
Chogyam
Trungpa
Rinpoche
defined
Idiot
Compassion as ―a slimy way of trying to fulfill your desire secretly;‖ the Karmayogini journal as, ―It is when you give people what they want as opposed to what they need, all in the name of being nice and compassionate [so that you can feel better yourself].‖ [165]
In Idiot Compassion, Pema Chodron refers to idiot compassion as what in
Psychology is referred to as enabling: ―Idiot compassion … refers to something we all do a lot of and call it compassion. In some ways, it‘s what‘s called enabling. It‘s the general tendency to give people what they want because you can‘t bear to see them suffering. Basically, you‘re not giving them what they need. You‘re trying to get away from your feeling of I can‘t bear to see them suffering. In other words, you‘re doing it for yourself. You‘re not really doing it for them.‖ [166]
Soulseeds: Mindful Compassion and Idiot Compassion165 explains Idiot
Compassion as ―When you try to help someone when they don‘t want your help, or because you are really trying to help yourself, this may be idiot compassion. Its often the distinction between charity (giving TO someone) and empowerment (helping people help themselves) .. The Zen story about compassion with a rolled up umbrella makes the point.
A woman was in India, riding with a friend in a
rickshaw when they were attacked by a crazed man. He did no harm other than to 165
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