fundamentalism

R rhisiart at earthlink.net
Fri Apr 19 14:42:39 PDT 2002


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From: joanna bujes

To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com

Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 1:39 PM

Subject: Re: fundamentalism

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.

or as is often said, "nothing succeeds like a sure thing."

Consciousness is a travail -- or as in King Lear "We must bear our going

hence, even as our coming hither."

Joanna

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