[lbo-talk] God's humor [was RE: Bulletin: Nothing inthosesquare pants!]

[Carl Remick]

>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
>Carl Remick wrote:
>
>>I am also amazed by the guffaws that RWE's "transparent eyeball" elicits.  
>>I can't imagine a more compelling image for a healthy negation of the ego. 
>>  Since RWE's message of "self-reliance" is often misinterpreted as being 
>>the forerunner of today's "greed is good," it is important to focus on the 
>>*loss* of self that RWE speaks of along with his feeling of being part of 
>>something greater: "...   all mean egotism vanishes. I become a 
>>transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the 
>>Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God."
>>
>>Write this off as Mellow Yellow (quite rightly) if you wish, Doug, but I 
>>think RWE's transparent eyeball could see the way to a socialistic future 
>>for the U.S.
>
>I can't see that at all. It's one of those very characteristic American 
>romantic moments where the sublimity is all about the disappearance of the 
>rest of humanity and one is alone with The Universe. Is this really the joy 
>of being human, or some fantasy of self-sufficiency and glorious isolation?

Hmm, I can't see how RWE's "I am nothing" is "all about the disappearance of 
the *rest* of humanity"; how it translates into "some fanatasy of 
self-sufficiency"; or how it points the way to the America, Fuck Yeah! fever 
that grips us now.

Feel free to continue devining the future from FOMC minutes -- I'll stick 
with RWE's journals ;-)

Carl