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I wrote this once, and I sent it out, and it disappeared.
I am sitting next to an open window during a grand green sky thunderstorm, and the breeze is much chilly.
What to say?
Depending on how imaginative, and how receptive to ideas represented in a metaphoric venue, a visual story, etc, I can either agree or disagree with Ebert.
Surely apocalypse Now represented idea-rich circumstances, war, imperialism, the most graphic illustration of Jung's call that the battle is not between external light and dark, good and evil, no that battle to be fought now is that of making the dark unconsciousness light. It is internal....
What is barbarism ? Primitive ritualistic cultures were more honest and direct with their confrontations with destruction, painting the cycle of life and death in the endless dance on cave walls, on hide tents, on their bodies, in their mythologies, in their stories. Modern civilized person, be er from China or from Austria, has a less direct, more idealized body of myth to work with to face the reality of existence.
We can reclaim from our own past the symbols that focus and make understandable our tangled emotions about death, sunlight, children, sex, food, survival, longing for immortality, or we can appreciate those we find in ouother cultures.
But it is helpful to grapple some with theses symbols, to make conscious what we can about our destructivesness, our shadow-selves, the parts of ourselve our super-ego represses that may come out when extremely challenged Like Kurtz, and take over from the n"better angels" of our natures.
I grimace at my own heritage, at some celtic images.. they used huamn sacrifice, why? what did it mean to them?
I don't know. but I do know that in the evolution of the human creature, 2500 years is a blink of an eye, 2000 yrs even less... that killing in the name of Odan, or christ, or the USA, may all be patrt of my story, my family, my responsiblity.

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: I wrote this once, and I sent it out, and it disappeared. : I am sitting next to an open window during a grand green sky thunderstorm, and the breeze is much chilly. : What to say? : Depending on how imaginative, and how receptive to ideas represented in a metaphoric venue, a visual story, etc, I can either agree or disagree with Ebert. : Surely apocalypse Now represented idea-rich circumstances, war, imperialism, the most graphic illustration of Jung's call that the battle is not between external light and dark, good and evil, no that battle to be fought now is that of making the dark unconsciousness light. It is internal.... : What is barbarism ? Primitive ritualistic cultures were more honest and direct with their confrontations with destruction, painting the cycle of life and death in the endless dance on cave walls, on hide tents, on their bodies, in their mythologies, in their stories. Modern civilized person, be er from China or from Austria, has a less direct, more idealized body of myth to work with to face the reality of existence. : We can reclaim from our own past the symbols that focus and make understandable our tangled emotions about death, sunlight, children, sex, food, survival, longing for immortality, or we can appreciate those we find in ouother cultures. : But it is helpful to grapple some with theses symbols, to make conscious what we can about our destructivesness, our shadow-selves, the parts of ourselve our super-ego represses that may come out when extremely challenged Like Kurtz, and take over from the n"better angels" of our natures. : I grimace at my own heritage, at some celtic images.. they used huamn sacrifice, why? what did it mean to them? : I don't know. but I do know that in the evolution of the human creature, 2500 years is a blink of an eye, 2000 yrs even less... that killing in the name of Odan, or christ, or the USA, may all be patrt of my story, my family, my responsiblity.

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