-Caveat Lector- LITTLETON ATONES FOR AMERICA'S GUILT ==================================== (CNNS, 04/20/99) -- "Trouble here, trouble there. There's so much trouble in the air." [1] There has been trouble in the air here in the USA, consequent to mass-murder by USA-led NATO in the former Yugoslavia. "The voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the ground." [2] Psycholgists label this "blood crying out from the ground" as "free floating anxiety." But they do not intuit the guilt that looks for a scapegoat. A troubling sense of guilt. A scapegoat needs must be found to carry away the guilt. In "primitive" times, a goat would symbolically carry the people's collective guilt off into the wilderness. We "moderns" scorn as superstitious old-time Biblical solutions. "But the man that is will shadow the man that pretends to be." [3] "The angry god is annoyed by a guilt that is not equally shared," writes Rene Girard in *The Scapegoat*. [4] The American guilt for its sins against Yugoslavia causes unease (anxiety) here at home. Like a game of musical chairs, all Americans dread that they will be "it." The people cling to their smiley-face mask: "Oh God, not me. Let it be someone else." And so, deep down (and you know it's true), we Americans breathe a sigh of relief when students are massacred at a high school in Littleton, Colorado. The guilt will not land on you or I (until it again builds up.) It has landed on Colorado high school students. Take a moment to relax. Musical chairs has not chosen you -- this time. The youngsters of the Columbine High School have atoned for our collective sins against Yugoslavia. But take it to the bank: musical chairs music is about to start again. America's collective guilt will recommence its search for scapegoats. Don't throw away that smiley face; the blood still cries out from the ground. Learn to blend in with the herd. That (they say) is safest. Shocked? "The victim is sacred," writes Girard in another book. It is criminal to kill the victim, "but the victim is sacred only because he is to be killed." [5] The victims of the Columbine High School massacre are elevated to sainthood. We all (for the moment) breathe a sigh of relief: they have atoned for our sins. UNTIL NEXT TIME. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I faintly hear musical chairs music playing, in the background. ---------------------------<< Notes >>--------------------------- [1] From old blues song. [2] Genesis 4:10 [3] "Choruses From 'The Rock'", by T.S. Eliot [4] *The Scapegoat* by Rene Girard. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986. ISBN: 0-8018-3917-3. [5] *Violence and the Sacred* by Rene Girard. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979. ISBN: 0-8018-2218-1. -- CNNS (Conspiracy Nation News Service) is an INDEPENDENT news outlet, not owned by anyone. (But of course, we would say that, wouldn't we?) BEWARE THE CFR! BEWARE THE CIA! BEWARE THE KNIGHTS! http://www.shout.net/~bigred/cn.html http://www.shout.net/~bigred/cnns.html DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
