Post on Dowd 11.1
To take Dowd's last question first: McCain doesn't regard himself as a question mark, having become convinced that the twin mythic themes of: A. His sacrificial war hero biography; B. Faith of My (his) Father's narrative, plus SOS crew members from The Good Ship Reagan to distribute the software ... are all that is needed to do the trick.
Of course, weknow there has never been "a" -- just one -- McCain, unless mythic putty confers identity on the brain washed. Some conservatives who knew him in Arizona said he would come in a room, say just the right things he knew they wanted to hear, then go out the door and do something entirely opposite, etc..
Speaking of brain washing, the answer to why his campaign got "whiny, angry, vengeful and bitter" is surely tied up with the depleted oxygen supply Maureen Dowd takes note of, brilliantly translating from cut off of metaphorical blood flow accessible national conversation by McCain's handlers, to cut off of flow of content needed for national nudtrition. She approaches pure metaphysics, this woman.
For, this 'loss of oxygen' needed for honest interchanges between man and audience goes with question of why he allowed himself to be infected by the Bush virus. The local Gannet USA Today editorial today used the term "poisonous" for the tone the discoure has taken. These go together, as I hope she, the editors, columnists and literatti understand, with the unconscious group-fantasy of "poisoned blood disease" (remember AIDS?), which psychohistorian L. deMause has shown to saturate the collective consciousness, the closer the "countdown" approaches to a re-play of ritual birth-trauma, which elections are. In our psyches, conjoined as they are, anatomically, by common fetal origins of experience, the brain(s) that follow the mythic theme of rebirth through sacrifice is/are oxygen-starved by the phantom Poisonous Placenta. This highest peak of anxiety regressively activates the fantasy of confinement with smelly siblings in the same Womb Surround -- will Deliverance arrive? Dare we Hope? -- "Bush" having taken on much the same cast as "Jew" in Germany, circa '30's.
The disease infecting the blood stream of American communication is, indeed, the poisoned blood fantasy converted into brain-gearing --Thought, Desire, Doing, as I take them -- by right wing rhetoricians ever ready to take advantage of the psychodynamics of the ritualized rebirth process.
Of course, weknow there has never been "a" -- just one -- McCain, unless mythic putty confers identity on the brain washed. Some conservatives who knew him in Arizona said he would come in a room, say just the right things he knew they wanted to hear, then go out the door and do something entirely opposite, etc..
Speaking of brain washing, the answer to why his campaign got "whiny, angry, vengeful and bitter" is surely tied up with the depleted oxygen supply Maureen Dowd takes note of, brilliantly translating from cut off of metaphorical blood flow accessible national conversation by McCain's handlers, to cut off of flow of content needed for national nudtrition. She approaches pure metaphysics, this woman.
For, this 'loss of oxygen' needed for honest interchanges between man and audience goes with question of why he allowed himself to be infected by the Bush virus. The local Gannet USA Today editorial today used the term "poisonous" for the tone the discoure has taken. These go together, as I hope she, the editors, columnists and literatti understand, with the unconscious group-fantasy of "poisoned blood disease" (remember AIDS?), which psychohistorian L. deMause has shown to saturate the collective consciousness, the closer the "countdown" approaches to a re-play of ritual birth-trauma, which elections are. In our psyches, conjoined as they are, anatomically, by common fetal origins of experience, the brain(s) that follow the mythic theme of rebirth through sacrifice is/are oxygen-starved by the phantom Poisonous Placenta. This highest peak of anxiety regressively activates the fantasy of confinement with smelly siblings in the same Womb Surround -- will Deliverance arrive? Dare we Hope? -- "Bush" having taken on much the same cast as "Jew" in Germany, circa '30's.
The disease infecting the blood stream of American communication is, indeed, the poisoned blood fantasy converted into brain-gearing --Thought, Desire, Doing, as I take them -- by right wing rhetoricians ever ready to take advantage of the psychodynamics of the ritualized rebirth process.
posted by Sid Thomas | 8:58 AM
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McCain played the part of sacrifical lamb in this election, as he did in Vietnam.
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