06-12-2012, 05:00 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-12-2012, 06:26 PM by Charles Drago.)
James H. Fetzer Wrote:There is a special destiny for those, like you, who use your talents, such as they may be, to conceal truths and promote falsehoods.
There's an interesting pathology on display here -- a form of transference.
[EDIT: The proper clinical term, as Greg Burnham accurately points out below, is projection.]
Fetzer, unwilling or unable to confront his demons, is chastising another for his own sins.
Is there no one left who loves the declining, chimera-chasing professor and is willing to secure for him the medical treatment he so clearly and tragically requires?
Flagellation, witting or otherwise, is never pretty.
But at times it's funny -- not to mention appropriate.
Charles Drago
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene