[Buddha-l] Voegelin and Nansen's cat

[jkirk]

 Curt says:
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.

I didn't write that--it was part of a message from Vicente.
Joanna

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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
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