Alan -- well in part perhaps that was ironic, but only by token of having
been so brief and so slightly provocative. When I think through to what
it can have been, the power of conviction that made him able so
magnificently to believe in the whole trajectory of mythopoeic 'return',
it seems to be the refusal to admit dialectical counterargument; this was
a refusal not so easily made as easily stated, and perhaps there's some
dialectic which might be implicit in that difference, but I wouldn't want
to say so. His scream at the 'platonic' decline into contradiction was
set up with a new world order so resolutely in view, how could he
entertain with any complex mediating patience the range of grubby
alternatives? That the Americans could fixate on some new euhemerism and
thereby become messianic friends of the earth does just seem ludicrous
now, even viciously so. These are the adventures in myth of a booming
postwar US economy, I might hesitate to say. You obviously feel very
differently -- please do say why, this is something that I think could
matter a great deal.
k
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