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Perhaps more directly related: Marcel's
"being" vs. "having"...
KP
----- Original Message -----
From: Karey L. Perkins
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 6:01 PM
Subject: Re: [percy-l] "...to the gas chamber..." Strikes me all as sort of "Brave New World"-ish --
behaviorist training of the children through shock therapy to hate
flowers/nature (because they are free) and to like complicated games with lots
of gadgets (because one had to "consume" -- buy -- them, thus helping the
economy). This is like Percy's "theorist-consumer" -- and we are
back "to the gas chambers" which at its core is the sacrifice of sacredness the
individual for the well-being of smoothly functioning society.
Marcel's functional man vs. ontological man.
KP
----- Original Message -----
From: Ken Armstrong
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 4:59 PM
Subject: RE: [percy-l] "...to the gas chamber..." search of a "sympathy" card, it does seem that prepackaged sentiments are the order of the day. I like your observation about buying our way out of the post 9/11 reality. Why is "shop and spend" our counter? Why not "attend your local place of worship" (I don't think that would have caused a problem with the establishment clause). At any rate, the call to shop didn't ring true. Ken Armstrong At 03:06 PM 3/6/2003 -0600, Marcus Smith wrote: >Does anyone share with me the feeling I get in any shopping mall that 90% >of what is offered in most shops and boutiques is congealed >"sentimentality" (aka "cute")? > >If so, is this tied into the exhortations by our leaders to try to buy our >way out of post 9-11 fear and to ignore their (our?) preparations for mass >murder? > >Fearful trembling in New Orleans one day after Ash Wednesday. > >Marcus Smith -- An archive of all list discussion is available at http://www.ibiblio.org/wpercy/hypermail Visit the Walker Percy Project at http://www.ibiblio.org/wpercy
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