Barry Spector's Blog – August 2015 Archive (3)

Barry’s Blog # 145: Do Black Lives Really Matter?

I was fortunate this week to attend a couple of performances of the National Poetry Slam in Oakland, where over 400 young people in 72 teams from around the country spilled their guts in…

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Added by Barry Spector on August 16, 2015 at 4:35pm — No Comments

Barry’s Blog # 144: What If We Allowed That To Happen? Part Two of Two

The paranoid imagination seeks itself: it constantly projects its unacceptable fantasies outward. This is the only way such people can see (and potentially know) themselves: in the image of the demonized Other.

Although both salvation and perdition fell on the individual Protestant of the seventeenth century, the entire community might suffer for one person’s sins; so each person was responsible for upholding group morality. Individual sin polluted, with consequences for all…

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Added by Barry Spector on August 8, 2015 at 1:22pm — No Comments

Barry’s Blog # 143: What If We Allowed That To Happen? Part One of Two

Readers of this blog may recall that one of the basic themes of the myth of American Innocence is what I have called the Paranoid Imagination. Previous essays on this subject include The Paranoid Imagination, Porn (Parts one and …

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Added by Barry Spector on August 5, 2015 at 3:42pm — No Comments

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