VLVL II: "What is Fascism?" ("When the white whale entered the river...")

[Terrance]

> 
> The French desire to "guard against dilution of French culture" is pathetic
> IMHO.  What we're really talking about is subjugation of a minority out of a
> fear of loss of personal identity, actually the manifestation of an
> inferiority complex, which we've seen manifestations of in Quebec, Canada
> too.  This is the opposite of the concept of a "melting pot," which infers
> the INCLUSION of ethnic characteristics.

France, as Paul pointed out, is not America. In America, the problems of
the immigrant and the migrant, the émigré and the refugee, are
distinctly American. 

As America became the proverbial melting pot, it was the Anglo-Saxon
woman's determination which assured that of all the ingredients mixed,
puritanism--such as it then was--would be the most pervasive streak. The
older, Anglo-Saxon type became ever more rigid, though at the same time
decent and kind in its way. But the daughters of immigrants, too,
frantically tried to emulate standards of conduct which they had not
learned as small children. It is here, I think, that the self-made
personality originated as the female counterpart of the self-made man;
it is here that we find the origin of the popular American concept of a
fashionable and vain ëgo"which is its own originator and arbiter. In
fact, the psychoanalysis of the children of immigrants clearly reveals
to what extent they, as the first real Americans in their family, become
their parents' cultural parents. 
This idea of a self-made ego was in turn reinforced and yet modified by
industrialization and by class stratification. Industrialization, for
example, brought with it mechanical child training. It was as if this
new man-made world of machines, which was to replace the "segments of
nature"and the "beasts of prey,"offered its mastery only to those who
would become like it, as the Sioux "became "buffalo, the Yurok salmon. 

When the whale enters the river, the sacred circle, the cosmos has been
penetrated.  

Brock does not erect a tower, a building, a structure,  high and
masculine, but a female gate, open and closed feminine modalities.