GRGR(12) Squalidozzi

[Richard Romeo]

Terrance wrote:
>Next, Squalidozzi says, "They see themselves at the end of a
>long European dialectic, generations of blighted grain,
>ergotism, witches on broom sticks, community orgies, cantons
>lost up there in the folds of the mountain that haven't
>known an unhallucinated day in the last 500 years--keepers
>of a tradition, aristocrats--"
>
>He says, "We can abide that openness."
>What's at stake here? Metaphysical control. [snip]
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Sounds alot like the chruch's condemnation of the gnostics, nicht wahr?--An 
elite group, sharing a hidden power, remote from man...
Of course, the church turned into an old boys network rather quickly. Seems 
neither institution can abide by openness--the church feels the threat to 
its growing power, the individual sects fearful, paradoxically, of a 
dilution of its essential purity of vision.  It is easy to see how the 
church becomes the state, the gnostics, hippies, LSD-addled are you 
experienced paranoids. And how things get mighty confused as to who to stand 
with. Have things changed all that much in 2000 years?

Rich

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