[lit-ideas] Re: when "no comment" is not enough
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 17:50:21 -0500
Change is tough. Presenting people with the possibility that maybe
something isn't what they've always thought or believed it was, and most
people balk. To even suggest that what you see is what you get when it
comes to motivation for negative behavior, and especially for war, is
denial bordering on lunacy. Denial gives us the illusion of safety, a very
important commodity. Unfortunately, the illusion negates any possibility
of having the real thing. Case in point: the 20th century and the
beginning of the 21st. Why do you think they happened? Just because they
did?
> [Original Message]
> From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 12/26/2005 2:37:38 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] when "no comment" is not enough
>
> >>resolving the problem of war requires insight,
> complex thought, and subtle tactics.
>
> Anyone smell sulfur or glimpse Mephistopheles as
> loping poodle? Aside from the hubristic notion of
> neurotic mastery in "resolving the problem of
> war," what other snake oil patent medicines does
> the doctor offer?
>
> Maybe--taking a cue from Patanjali's Yoga
> Sutras--this psychoanalytic Hermes Trismegistus
> can offer the gift of invisibility or flight?
> Delusions of mastery and ever-present profit
> motive aside, what does the doctor offer except
> the apotheosis of a therapeutic state, where the
> unexamined icon of national power is exchanged for
> the unexamined icon of the father-mentor-rationalist?
>
> Puh..lease.
>
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