Oh, man. It’s going to be different this winter. Another ten degrees lower today and we’d be up to our eyeballs in snow.
Here I am again, more or less. I just haven’t felt like writing, another minor crisis of the kind I seem to thrive on. But who has time for those any more? I’m just trying to take it all in. Besides blogs and tea leaves, I’ve been reading Paul Levy’s essays. The Carl Jung quotations are startlingly relevant, folks. I hardly know where to start, or even whether I should. Go take a look, if you can handle the context. I’ve been in a similar groove for quite a while, so obviously this Levy guy is really smart, ho-ho.
But basically, the deal is this: the evil Nazi bastards aren’t an “other” we can defeat, but rather the manifestation of what we deny in ourselves. They also can’t be reasoned with because they’re possessed. True madmen with atomic weapons, they may precipitate the end of every happy, good, and noble thing you’ve ever planned or wished for. It’s all about to be decided by our collective psyche, too. We dreamed up Bush, in effect. That might explain a few things. We denied our shadow, and up he popped. He doesn’t know that. He still thinks God told him to steal the elections so they could trade places.
I can almost get my energy around this. Not quite, but almost, and I felt the pressure lessen.
39 degrees, no snow tonight. The mud, however, will be awesome.
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Oh, I know full well that Bush IS US. I’ve said so many times. In fact, I once declared that Bush represents the BEST that America can do!
Actually, I think you missed my point. I’m not complaining about the president. I’m not complaining about anything. And the Jung quotations in Levy’s essays are so on the money, they would make your head spin. Everything we face now, even the idiot electorate, is a co-creation that everyone takes part in. This has nothing to do with politics. I’m not even talking about politics.
In the years I have read you, it seems as though I have detected a complaintive tone. This would lead me to believe you have complained. Calling your president a Hitler certainly should qualify as a complaint of some sort.
Most of your writings relate to human relations. Human relations is politics, since we were sitting in front of a cave around a fire, roasting a prehistoric camel.
I guess I didn’t get your point. But I’ll keep trying.
What I wrote above was not a comment about 1 article, but about your general frustration with the way things are.
I’m delighted you’ve read me for years.
As for my general frustration with the way things are, maybe you DO get my point: I know I’ve been a complainer. I also know I’m part of the problem. We all are, and maybe we’re here to figure that out. I’m frustrated with myself. And lo, the world is shit. Except it isn’t, of course.
Thank you for your thoughts.
As an author, if you went around telling every one that everything is hunky-dory, no one would read you. So your pointing out the foibles of man is good. The electorate wants to hear what is bad with the world, especially if it affects their wallet.
About 20 years ago, I made the conscious decision to never read, listen or watch anything dealing with Palestine. It was one of the best decisions I ever made. I added years to my life! My life was improved immeasurably. And I was right. With the latest Palestinian war, I decided to look at it on TV. It was like watching the Broncos play after a 20 yr. hiatus. Same uniforms, different names. Nothing had changed.
My rule is never worry about that which you can’t do anything about! I’m older than you, but became a proud cynic at about your age.