Hitchens/ Rush/ Milosevic/Adolph/ Bush/ Vond ?charm?

[Ian Livingston]

I'd like to point toward Jung's discussion of "The Phenomenology of
Spirit in Fairytales" in The Archetypes and the Collective
Unconscious.  One thing he mentions is failure of self-knowledge in
the individual that makes her (or him) particularly susceptible to the
seduction of participation in the impetus of mass movements.  It is a
very readable essay and I think it is especially pertinent here and to
OBA's work in general.

-i

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
> I wonder if we could turn this conversation for a round or 2  anyway to
> Sasha's premise about the charm of fascists.
>
> This is kind of awful but do those of us who despise fascism miss something
> about the phenomena by focusing on the monstrous violence  of the fascist
> and the question of what is the proper military or geopolitical response and
> missing the twinkle in his eye  earlier in his career that makes his success
> possible.
>
> Is there a cultural response that  can heal  this  communicable disease at
> the pre-pubescent  ambitious charm stage?
>