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To: Dayuhan who wrote (24452)	8/19/1998 7:50:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (2) of 108807

Funny---we had a Tolkien discussion at DAR not long ago--a couple of us admitted we couldn't get through it and what was the big deal (I was one-and have always felt intellectually inferior because of this failure) From all the things you say I assume you have read Joseph Campbell. (Or else you are just really brilliant?) He even uses Star Wars as a possibility of a new mythology to replace the outmoded one. It is certainly filled with the proper themes. Alex and I are entranced by myths. Oh yes yes yes--children need to believe in themselves as heroes! To see the world as a place in which they have a purpose. (A heroic quest) To believe they can actually affect (impact, Alex?) the lives around them! When your children are a little older and utter their first words of cynicism, it's a terrible feeling! Can you have a heroic quest without a moral sense---ooo-I instinctively think not. THe hero must be acting on behalf of something bigger than himself. It's more than self-serving, it has a spiritual dimension to it. Without a moral sense, we are-animals? And thus-totally self-interested. There would be no growth, or maturing, no transformation to something greater. It's funny-you have me thinking about my boys--(now I am uncomfortable again-I usually write this type of thing at DAR) but Ammo is 15 and writes frequently of young men encountering terrible obstacles. He struggles with the moral decisions of life and death. CW, my 17, has already lost that concept and thinks in terms of power and influence. Where Ammo was saddened watching Clinton, CW was shrugging a "What can you expect?" kind of reaction. That to me is Clinton's greatest sin against us.

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