Re: Clarifications
Matthew_Stevenson@baylor.edu
Tue, 23 Jun 1998 18:32:03 -0500
bravo, robert!--matt
On Mon, 22 Jun 1998 23:33:44 -0400 winboog@gis.net (Robert Morris) wrote:
>I don't have the energy to find exact quotes, but Joseph Campbell reacted
>quite strongly to people expressing particularly strong views in favor of
>Socilaism or Capitalism, and Campbell pretty much moved with the Zeitgeist
>of thirties Socialism. He once also lectured his students at Sarah
>Lawerence concerning the jingoism of the WWII war effort. Then in the
>sixties, he completely disdained the anti-Vietnam activism taking place on
>campuses. He felt that to embrace one set of these ideals to the exclusion
>of the other wasto be particularly blind. The whole Us Vs.Them thing he
>spoke about consistently throughout his work.
> I think our good friend Buddy Glass told an anecdote about having a
>young girl tell him in a supermarket that her boyfriends were Dorothy and
>Robert. It's about unlearning the differences, buddy...
> I am a bit tired of these political flame wars going on here ( and I'm
>sure I'm inviting another one just by saying so), but it seems antithetical
>to the JD Salinger newsgroup to be talking in such hard terms about various
>political philosophies to the exclusion of the others. I'm down with
>Christ, and I don't see a lot of that Christ consciousness inherrent in
>Marxism or Capitalism ( please I can't endure another explanation of why
>Christ was a Communist, Andrew) So let's talk about Acting with all your
>heart or Writing as Religion. If som of you wish to continue discourse
>along these lines, I'm sure there are places for it.
> peace,
> Robert
>