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To: Ilaine who wrote (19105)	5/19/2002 5:04:21 PM
From: marcos	Respond to of 74559

Put "eric hoffer" into google and the third site you get is from an Ayn Rander page, which somewhat surprises me, though i can't say exactly why ..... i haven't read True Believer, but now plan to after reading these quotes - home.uchicago.edu ' 33. The discontent generated by backward countries by their contact with Western civilization is not primarily resentment against exploitation by domineering foreigners. It is rather the result of a crumbling or unmaking of tribal solidarity and communal life. The Western colonizing powers offer the native the gift of individual freedom and independence. They try to teach him self-reliance. What it all actually amounts to is individual isolation. It means the cutting off of an immature and poorly furnished individual from the corporate whole and releasing him, in the words of Khomiakov, "to the freedom of his own impotence." ' Exactly - the responsibility that comes with individual freedom is perceived to be a breaking of the family-tribal ties that bind societies together .... add that to the fact that too many 'western colonising powers' have been in too many instances not at all interested in offering 'the gift of individual freedom' but rather out to rob all they could get for their ruling elites, and you can start to see why some sneer at the F-word .... but Hoffer had some clear thoughts, yes he did ..... he was somewhat known among oldtimer BC loggers of the fifties and sixties, his books in camps quite often, as he was a logger before 'going on the beach', i.e. 'becoming a longshoreman'