Posted by Yon Bard on December 01, 1998 at 20:55:38:
In Reply to: Re: Would a rose by any other name smell as sweet? posted by James Allen on December 01, 1998 at 16:11:32:
: : No! You are talking about the cache of transference. I may catch a lot of flak for this but the dominant thrust to collect ethnographic material is to gather the essence of an alien life and by transference experience a slice of that existence. It is caused by an internal poverty which our civilization has imparted to us. We are little more than hamsters on a wheel and we of course seek first to deny this then to transfer something better to ourselves. We ruggies are really druggies without the exogenous molecules. Jim
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Jim, you will indeed catch flak! Speak for yourself, man!
Regards, Yon