--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@...> wrote:
>
>> P.S.: Both Hamlet and Manson were committing what's
> called a "category error," specifically, applying
> the the truth of one level of consciousness onto
> another one.
>
> Hamlet, as it happens, was using it to suggest that
> Rosencrantz and Guildenstern were glossing over the
> evils of the situation in Denmark. Manson was using
> it to gloss over his own horrendous misdeeds.
>
> Given Hamlet's struggles with his conscience and
> Manson's utter lack of conscience about his
> appalling murders, it's probably safe to assume that
> neither was actually experiencing the reality they
> were mouthing.
>
* * * Right -- none of this is to serve as an excuse for doing what we know to
be wrong; in fact it is not a recipe for any kind of action or inaction. It is
simply a tool for self-liberation :-)
