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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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