okay?
On Sep 29, 2010, at 12:24 PM, david buchanan wrote: > > > Marsha said to dmb: > Are you going through my posts looking for errors? I can save you the > trouble and admit to making lots of mistakes. > > > dmb says: > > No, I'm not looking for errors. I tend to comment on the errors that are so > glaring and jarring that they just jump out at me. I mean, it's not exactly a > subtle mistake to construe the wise fool as a "pure fool" or a "poor fool". > In doing so, a very dynamic archetype of the hero becomes an entirely > negative figure. He is Bugs Bunny, the Brujo at Zuni and Lance the surfer in > Apocalypse Now. He's Bill Hicks and Alan Ginsberg. I especially like this > description: > > "The trickster is a very important archetype in the history of man. He is a > god, yet he is not. He is the wise-fool. It is he, through his creations that > destroy, points out the flaws in carefully constructed societies of man. He > rebels against authority, pokes fun at the overly serious, creates convaluted > schemes - that may or may not work - plays with the Laws of the Universe and > is sometimes his own worst enemy. He exists to question, to cause us to > question & not accept things blindly. He appears when a way of thinking > becomes outmoded needs to be torn down built anew. He is the Destroyer of > Worlds at the same time the savior of us all." > > You can take this correction as a form of persecution or you can take it as > an opportunity to divest yourself of a misconception. I think it would be > wise to pick the latter. Don't you think it would be better FOR YOU? You > don't want to ignore the facts of the matter just to spite me, do you? You'd > only be hurting yourself, which would be foolish, no? > > > > Marsha said to dmb: > Please not the corrected posted a few hours later. > > > dmb says: > > Sorry less the correction position in ever minutes. > > > > > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html ___ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
