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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: epicure who wrote (225514)3/29/2007 11:55:55 AM
From: Rambi  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Excellent, excellent article-- very well-conceived and superbly written. Yes, it's long, but worth the 10 or 15 minutes. The author steps back and views the conflict in sweeping terms, using the universal concepts of narrative and mythology to talk about the consequences of this admin's actions on our country, and the results of this changed narrative on other countries' own myths.

Anyone who has read Campbell and Jung grasps our need for myths in our lives- both individually and nationally. Bush used terms that elevated 9-11 to a mythological status, the Good v. Evil cosmic battle, and took our nation in a direction which has limited our country's ability to survive as our sacred narrative had defined us. Vlahos doesn't see this as something that will be easily undone with a change of leadership. A narrative disrupted and altered, like the course of a river, now has its own new direction. Some of us feared this early on, when we believed that the terms being employed were exaggerated and wrongly applied, and that our actions (such as pre-emptive war) violated how we define ourselves.

It makes withdrawal a defeat on a much deeper and darker level for those who accepted the new myth. It is now a confrontation of Biblical proportions.

And it's not just America, but those whom we defined as the dark side who see it that way now.
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