[lit-ideas] Re: Another Bush failure?
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 09:32:11 -0400
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> From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 8/28/2006 12:08:47 AM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Another Bush failure?
>
> Irene: The most dreaded demons are the internal ones. Face
> them and nothing else matters.
>
>
> Eric:How do you know this?
>
> Irene: By taking the Hero's Journey. By looking at my
> feelings, emotions, motivations. .... I am here to tell you
> that the most dreaded demons are the internal ones. Face
> them and nothing else matters. Tragically, next to nobody
> does that. Instead, they get their emotions out by invading
> countries, or cheering on those who invade other countries.
>
> Eric: Well how comfy for you to have taken the Hero's
> Journey or Fool's Errand and to assume that nobody does that
> but the select few of which you are the current
> spokesperson. How very elect of you.
>
Thanks for recognizing it.
> Perhaps you should consider that the capacity for
> self-deception is unlimited and sempiternal, and that
> internal demons may easily disguise themselves as the
> Faustian fruit of our illusory inner mastery.
>
You mean, like believing we're winning big time in Iraq? That kind of
self-deception? And as we keep losing over there, or more like become
increasingly irrelevant, then get attacked by the enemy we forgot about,
who we emboldened, in our rush to wish the world into the way we wanted it,
we'll read passages out of Faust to prove how in touch we are.
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