American Nobel?

[Mark Kohut]

Thanks.

 Maybe I've read the Weber essay tendentiously--as I mention-- partly for self-protection, I'm sure.

The essay should be online somewhere, I think. Tell me your interpretation.

My only epiphany--or projection---regards what I thought I read: If one EXERCISES "charisma"---leadership?--one exercises power, in some way. Which means, perhaps in your terms, one does 'manipulate' others---which is the beginning of the meaning of "power corrupts, etc."

MK


--- On Sat, 10/4/08, David Payne <dpayne1912 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: David Payne <dpayne1912 at hotmail.com>
> Subject: RE: American Nobel?
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org, bandwraith at aol.com
> Date: Saturday, October 4, 2008, 3:12 AM
> On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 (05:46:16 -0700), Mark
> (markekohut at yahoo.com) wrote:
> 
> > (By the way, when I reread Weber's "Politics
> as a Vocation" I had this real or projected epiphany:
> Essay says charisma (and USING IT) is what any leader
> [politician/religious leader, etc.] must have. And, in using
> it, one's authentic self inevitably suffers.
> >
> > I think this is a deep reason TRP believes in
> privacy---a value of authenticity; a human value sounded
> most in AtD and mostly lost in the modern world.
> 
> Really interesting idea. Pardon the dialetic/exploration,
> but is charisma purely physical? Can charisma be expressed
> by words alone? Is Pynchon--or any other writer (perhaps of
> yr favorite blog or list serve)--a leader?
> 
> But even if charisma is purely physical, is it outside the
> authentic self ... or is the idea that manipulating others
> is the eradication of self? In which case does the act of
> writing for an audience cause the authentic self to suffer?
> (Maybe there's a reason that writing, as an art, tends
> to reveal so many drunkards as artists.)
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