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[Paul Mackin]

On 5/4/2011 11:39 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:
> This barely-a-spoiler from later I am posting, forgive me,  'cause of our
> recent talking about sincerity and authenticity.   (for Paul M.)
>
> p. 452 ---Otto, she said.---"Sincerity becomes the honesty of people
> who cannot be honest with themselves."
>
> Wow.....eh?
>
Guess Esme is saying that Otto is deluding himself.  She lives in the 
real world (at least some of the time).

The Self to which Otto is being true is a construction--not real. (Esme 
sees)

Does this relate to nonviolence?  Can nonviolence be inauthentic?

I'm not talking about nonviolence as a strategy--as King and Gandhi used 
it--in order to shame society into providing better treatment for an 
oppressed group.  (a gentler form of coercion)

I mean nonviolence as a good in itself.

Of course we cannot help wanting with all our hearts nonviolence in our 
own private world and in that of our children.  Violence devastates.

But the real world is very very violent.

P