Spoiler's Reading IV pp 1-50

[alice wellintown]

In Chapter 14 of Normon O. Brown's _Life Against Death_ he describes
Luther's "Privy Enlightenment." While seated on the privy in the tower
of the Wittenberg monastery, Luther had "his crucial religious
experinece."   p. 211,  same chapter,  Brown quotes Huizinga. The
sombre wings of Satan, a Bad V, covers the earth. To temper its
pernicious power men and women organize themselves in opposition to
the Death force,  to counter the forces of Death. Sometimes they have
a limited success: Socialists in Indinapolis,  Wobblies, early SDS,
early civil rights movement, on and on . . . .from V. and TSI through
AtD, these organized worker movements are defeated because they are
infected with a Love of Death, Protestant Work Ethic Death, and so
they are driven, as blind workers, like Mason and Dixon wondering whom
or what they are working for, as post-modern proles, proles who, like
the Party members in 1984, are no longer Human, for they have lost
their physical and ethical place on Earth. So blindly they struggle to
gain control, to re-define themselves by defining and controlling the
Earth and their place or vocation in and on it. The short solution is
to Work and Sing. That is what the woman in 1984 does. She hangs up
the clothes and she sings. But we all want to believe. And organized
labor, like organized religion, is a cult. Webb preaching to the boyz,
blowing up train bridges with the Russian on the 4th of July. That's
where it gets gnostic and gnarley.

We can't be Big Stars and Bob Dylan.

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