ck: I wonder whether this doesn't come down to an
emotional need to believe in the protective
rationality of one's pater familias--versus, say,
my emotional need to question the pater of my
national familias, until he's forced to defend his
capacities by showing them.
So what do we really know? Why condemn higher
political skepticism? Just as easy to say that
daddy-haters will take the same field day as
good-daddy identifiers. Both, like Jung's
alchemists, will project famously into that great
blank tabula, coming up for air only to enjoin:
bad-not bad-bad-not bad-bad-not bad-bad-not
bad-bad-not bad-bad-not bad-bad-not bad-bad-not
bad-bad-not bad-bad-not bad-bad-not bad-bad-not
bad-bad-not bad-bad ... yeah bad-not bad
[from the Times news feed]
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/16/washington/16rumsfeld.html?th&emc=th
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