From: "Paul Murphy" <Villanova-AT-btopenworld.com> Subject: Re: Emerson on complicity Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 15:01:23 +0200 hear, hear... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Sanchez" <heliogabalus-AT-eudoramail.com> To: <nietzsche-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu> Sent: Sunday, July 14, 2002 10:13 AM Subject: Re: Emerson on complicity > If Eric looks at American Transcendentalism to support his 'liberal democrat' apologism for neo-colonialists genocide, he'll find little (except abstract proto-existentialist individual-as-consumer bullshit). Thoreau and Emerson stood united in their hatred of the US's invasion of Mexico (and remember, what Ulyssess S. Grant said, that the civil war was divine punishment for that aggression), and Thoreau was willing to go to jail rather than pay taxes which fund, what our modern lingo calls, (state) terrorism. > > In the same essay Eric quotes from, Self-reliance, Emerson goes on to explain that the reason why one should 'trust thyself' is because we cannot be 'cowards fleeing before a revolution.' > He continues: 'Society is everywhere in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock company [or corporation], in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs. *Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist.*' > > Then Emerson speaks directly to Eric when saying, 'I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions,' and calls to Americans: 'Let us affront and reprimand the smooth mediocrity and squalid contentment of the times ... in the face of custom and trade and office.' > > This is why i defend an ethical sense of history and must agree with Mark Twain (when the US slaughtered 200,000 men, womyn, and children in the Spanish-American War at the turn of the century) in suggesting that the US flag should replace the stars and stripes with the skull and crossbones. :kev > > > Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com > > > --- from list nietzsche-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- > --- from list nietzsche-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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