In the rathouse 'o interpretation (WAS Re: politics and religion...)

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In a message dated 2/19/2003 11:53:27 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
prozak at anus.com writes:


> > > At that point conceptualizations and religion are no more
> > > necessary than dream interpretation.
> > 
> > Necessary for whom (...what?)?
> 
> In some cases, that question answers itself when the context is 
> revealed to be as broad as it is.
> -- 
> 

Which begs a series of questions- Whose context, Whose revelation, etc?
Back to that "wrong questions- no answers need be supplied," catch. 
Like- Is Saddam bad or not? In lieu of- Why the insatiable need to consume
so much oil anyway (why is Saddam so important to Oceania)?

It seems Orwell's recognition- that maintaining social control begins
with controlling history- is what equates the left and right wings of THEM.

That "context" you speak of may seem broad to those living in relative 
comfort, but given current instabilities, it could easily shrink to the size
of a boccie ball, even for the comfortable, who have the most to lose.

Like all those whose retirement has suddenly been postponed by the 
collapse of the market in the U.S.

Integration- developing a whole context or field from a single
point (of view) entails a price- the loss of individuality- in favor
of the whole context. Differentiation, shrinking the whole to a 
single point, enhances the significance of the individual- what 
Flange fears- but only with a loss of meaning.

Maybe dreams are the palimpsestic remnants of some deeper
level, layered over but not erased- a more generic reaction to 
a specific day.

Hyacinths for Cindy

 
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