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<A title=joanna.bujes@ebay.sun.com
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=lbo-talk@lists.panix.com
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, April 19, 2002 1:39
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: fundamentalism</DIV>
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<DIV>At 10:26 PM 04/18/2002 -0400, you wrote:<BR>>In my experience
Westerners are transfixed by what they take to be a<BR>>fervent
'fundamentalism' (of any variety from Islamic to Christian)<BR>>because
their own belief system is so shallow that any halfway meant<BR>>expression
of intent seems awesome. Put another way, all the talk about<BR>>the power
of fundamentalism is just ill-disguised jealousy that other<BR>>people are
not racked by the same nagging self-doubts that preoccupy<BR>>western
culture (though in all likelihood, they are).<BR>>- --<BR>>James
Heartfield<BR><BR>Yup. There's a lot of "nostalgia" and a yearning for lack of
ambivalence.</DIV>
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<DIV><BR><BR>Consciousness is a travail -- or as in King Lear "We must bear
our going <BR>hence, even as our coming
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