[lit-ideas] Re: Awakening from the Nightmare of History
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "lit-ideas" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2005 09:01:30 -0400
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> From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 8/6/2005 1:39:10 AM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Awakening from the Nightmare of History
>
> and how can one overgeneralizing give fantasy a bad name?
>
>
> The subtext of such psychoanalytic speculation is that If all
> nations are collective fantasies of their citizens, an awakening
> into a rational world state is in order. (What else will save us
> from nations?)
>
> Of course this is the most fantastic claim of all, and should be
> subjected to rigorous psychoanalytic speculation.
>
> How about this? The rational one-body global state is a nostalgia
> for the womb or for the post-partum undifferentiated sensorium of a
> newborn who thinks that he or she "is the world." It's a desire for
> perfectly rational parents who offer unconditional love at all times.
>
Let's look at this. If we go on the assumption that people's personalities
are developed in very, very earliest life, when historically people were
considered the most useless and treated the least attentively, and still
are, it's not such a far fetched conclusion that the remainder of people's
lives is spent searching for the connection that didn't happen when it
needed to happen.
> Yet the rational one-body global state is the worst nightmare of
> all. Such a state of affairs only has to be corrupted or "go bad"
> once, and all humanity is its captive. There truly would be nowhere
> to hide, no island for Aldous Huxley's misfits. Nazi Germany would
> appear tame by comparison.
>
Not if it's rational. The fantasy comes in because rational will never
happen. The one-body global state is the worst nightmare of all. A
rational one-body global state is waiting for us in the hereafter. It will
never happen here on earth.
Andy Amago
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