paranoia

[Keith Davis]

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> On Oct 10, 2018, at 7:42 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I'd be willing to grant Koestler that he may be right enough in a
> descriptive, speculatively possible way, perhaps knowing whereof he speaks,
> as misogyny and sexual aggression--(read Eve as a Western male projection
> myth) and possibly even (serial) rape might be *his *original sin
> except that I have to say Only in the Western world--as he states it
> here--since so many non-Western cultures do not share "the line of ascent'
> eschatology in their mythologies.
> 
> I still prefer Pynchon's West-based perspective on such sexual sins: power
> dynamics and whole cultures warp us, warp men especially since patriarchy
> is very real in most of the Western world. I sometimes wonder whether P's
> mysterious open-ended ambiguous bits of Something Eastern coming into
> America is partially a nod to the Oriental traditions which infused America
> from Emerson's and Thoreau's thoughts thru Beat Zen and all in-between and
> after. Non-Western eschatologies.
> 
> Which overrides Original Sin as insight  in him, I aver, which kind of sin
> he may believe in as well, of course.
> O and what we still call Free Will to sin sometimes.
> 
> This is not to say that I think other (major) cultures are Original
> Sinless......
> 
> For all we can learn, that I've gathered from coincidental reading. we see
> Original Sinlessness in only a few cultures. And we might not know their
> demonic outlets well.....(I just read about one society the
> anthropologists saw this way but now have learned of the silent, secret way
> mysterious deaths were caused by indiscernible poisoning to some who were
> on on the wrong side of the culture or some within it.)
> 
> On Sat, Oct 6, 2018 at 11:00 AM Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> The ancient doctrine of original sin, variants of which occur
>> independently in the mythologies of diverse cultures, could be a reflection
>> of man’s awareness of his own inadequacy, of the intuitive hunch that
>> somewhere along the line of his ascent something has gone wrong. To put it
>> vulgarly, we are led to suspect that there is somewhere a screw loose in
>> the human mind. We ought to give serious consideration that somewhere along
>> the line something has gone seriously wrong with the evolution of the
>> nervous system of Homo sapiens.   (The Ghost in the Machine, Arthur
>> Koestler 1968, 267, p. 238)
>> 
>> ….Let us note as a possible hypothesis that the delusional streak which
>> runs through our history may be an endemic form of paranoia, built into the
>> wiring circuits of the human brain. ( The Ghost in the Machine, Arthur
>> Koestler 1968, 267, p. 239)
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