Today's Tokens

Today’s tokens

The American Experience today: 9.20.’05

TOKENS TEXTING THE National mood – and the group-fantasy situation

Gleaned from across the media – these ‘tap into’ the group fantasy: promote thought by raising emotional associatins.

1. BROKEN (JUST Prior: ‘tipping point’ reached in Bush presidency before storms) levee (17th street canal on Lake Pontchartrain)
Associations: broken bonds (of unity – umbilici holding ‘us’ together; holding back criticism of Bush adm.) bursting point (title of David Brooks NYTinmes columnist )

2. FLOOD (catastrophic devastation)
Assoc: overwhelmed (by emotionality, frustration, rage, helplessness) drowing///

3. MISSING - c

childrenen – pictures or blackened sillouettes with names on every CNN screne LEADERSHIP
Assoc: lost, abandoned (by authority; govt.; parents), isolated,
sympathy, sense of “each one counts”

4. DRAINED -- of life, energy, resolve
-ing – flood water out of New Orleans.

5. TOXIC / DISEASE
-waters, BIRD FLU cf. picture of Bush in Nation mag, overgrown with green algae,

6. RECKONING ---
watched – judged – punished: FOR SINFULNESS (cf. “unconscious sense of guilt” STORMS = THE WRATH OF GOD
For “absolutizing the relative” (see: ‘cndition’)

7. YOD, GOD AND THE MOON –
Francis; “skies ringing with history”: - moon in Pisces, opposite Sun-Mercury …. The “YOD” (triangle of planets: Mars in Taurus, Jupiter in Libra (justice), Pluto in Sagittarius) … Mars RETROGRADE IN TAURUS:
Historical connection with floods.