Chris Locke writes:
Like mold in cheese — or in bread and wine — race, religion and
genocide are interwoven by a mycelium of fear and hatred of "the other"
that cannot be isolated from the cultural substrates on which they have
mutually incubated, fed and multiplied. Through a convenient amnesia
with respect to its own history — call it a collective unconscience –
the United States has escaped much of the "credit" it deserves for this
insidious multiplication. To take one example: the demonstrative role
its spirited boosterism of "racial hygiene" played in the Nazi
Holocaust.
If, like me, you have followed the threads of his examination of the "numinous lunacy of the mystic bourgeoisie," then this paragraph makes perfect sense. To find out how eugenics, colonialism (and its obverse, imperialism) relates to a soak in the tubs and a full body massage at Esalen Institute, you simply have to go there.
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