fundamentalism

[joanna bujes]

At 10:26 PM 04/18/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>In my experience Westerners are transfixed by what they take to be a
>fervent 'fundamentalism' (of any variety from Islamic to Christian)
>because their own belief system is so shallow that any halfway meant
>expression of intent seems awesome. Put another way, all the talk about
>the power of fundamentalism is just ill-disguised jealousy that other
>people are not racked by the same nagging self-doubts that preoccupy
>western culture (though in all likelihood, they are).
>- --
>James Heartfield

Yup. There's a lot of "nostalgia" and a yearning for lack of ambivalence.

Consciousness is a travail -- or as in King Lear "We must bear our going 
hence, even as our coming hither."

Joanna