[Buddha-l] Voegelin and Nansen's cat

[Curt Steinmetz]

jkirk wrote:
>  
> Truly I never imagined that the rescue of this
> thread can awake all these passions. I wonder if the USA
> psychotherapy is an equivalent of European soccer, and in that
> case, the European decadence is complete.
>   

The problem is that Nazism is part of the collective karma of the 
western psyche, and some choose to attempt to exorcise this part of our 
shadow through the ancient practice of "scapegoating". Instead of facing 
up to just how un-anomalous Nazism is in the history of "the west" over 
the last 1500 years, an attempt is made to single out individuals and/or 
"movements" and to brand them as "pro-Nazi" aberrations, while neatly 
and conveniently exonerating the rest of us.

Whatever gets your through the (long dark) night (of the soul), I guess.

Curt Steinmetz