[lit-ideas] Re: Awakening from the Nightmare of History
- From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2005 01:39:03 -0400
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.
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.
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