[lit-ideas] Re: Awakening from the Nightmare of History

  • From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 17:02:56 -0400

From the 'nightmare of history" Spam: Nations constitute a shared fantasy of immortality.

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It's hard to read this stuff without laughing.

If nations are "a shared fantasy of immortality," then so are families, children, friendships, one's work, language, religion, nature, space exploration, and of course, psychoanalytic writing.

Equally, world government would be a "shared fantasy of immortality." Except that people would have no way to escape from one fantasy and immigrate to another fantasy.

Such overgeneralization gives fantasy a bad name.

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