Just a thought

[FrodeauxB at aol.com]

On the day when the death of one of HST's advisers/radiation biologist James 
Stewart "Stew" Otto (er, any relation, mien herr?) was in the papers, a 
little thought on the war:
War, then, is the act of restaging 
early traumas for the purpose of maternal revenge and 
self purification. Wars are clinical emotional disorders, 
periodic shared psychotic episodes of delusional 
organized butchery intended--like homicide--to turn a 
severe 'collapse of self esteem' into 'a rage to achieve 
justice.' Wars are both homicidal and suicidal--every 
German in 1939 who cheered Hitler on as he promised to 
start an unwinnable world war against overwhelming opposing 
nations knew deep down they were committing suicide. Like 
all homicides and suicides, wars are reactions to our 
failed search for love, magical gestures designed to 
ensure love through projection into enemies, by 'knocking 
the Terrifying Mommy off her pedestal' and by 'killing 
the Bad Boy self.'" 
~~ Lloyd deMause, "War as Righteous Rage and Purification"
(http://www.psychohistory.com/htm/war.html)

TTFN

frodeauxb