[percy-l] "...to the gas chamber..."
Karey L. Perkins
karey at charter.net
Thu Mar 6 18:05:02 EST 2003
Perhaps more directly related: Marcel's "being" vs. "having"...
KP
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From: Karey L. Perkins
To: Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion
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
To: marcus at loyno.edu ; percy-l at lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 4:59 PM
Subject: RE: [percy-l] "...to the gas chamber..."
Having just emerged from the greeting card section of a local shop, in
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
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