--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why is "writer's > ego" privileged? Especially when a writer--at least > a published one--is in a position to influence large > numbers of readers?
"Writer's ego" is not privileged, just understood. :-) As for influencing large numbers of readers, might I suggest that your sense of perspective is as skewed as Paul's is today? As of today, his book is listed in Amazon's sales rankings at number 1,092,234, which is admittedly higher than any of mine, but it doesn't really put him in the bestseller ballpark, does it? His subject matter is a gentleman whose name I think it is safe to say 95% of the world's population does not recognize, and couldn't possibly care less about if they *did* recognize it, much less want to read a book about him. Maharishi and his life are of enduring interest pretty much only to those who learned TM in the past, and really only to a small subset of them, primarily the ones who became TM teachers or TBs. Maharishi is just not that important from the world's point of view. And thus those who write about him are even less important in the grand scheme of things. There is a certain liberation in not being important. Maharishi has never understood that, nor have many of his followers. Other teachers and other followers have. It's purely a matter of preference, but I kinda prefer the people who have a feel for their essential unimportance than I do for those who feel important. Signing off now...you can argue with empty cyberspace, if you think...uh...it's important enough, or that empty cyberspace considers you important enough to listen to. :-) ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Dying to be thin? Anorexia. Narrated by Julianne Moore. http://us.click.yahoo.com/abEMxA/sbOLAA/d1hLAA/0NYolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
