- Glenn Marsala It's a little strange how holier than thou so many haters are in that crowd. Just spouting nonsense with absolute assurance that their opinions are unassailable, and have no idea what unassailable means. "Is it like when Italian merchants stop carrying a product because it doesn't sell?"
- Glenn Marsala Oh, I have also been guilty of probably clumping Muslims together in a judgmental way, but I regard all belief systems and cults with distrust, at best; although religion can be a tool of positive change... So consider me a questioning, changeable observer and participant in a dinner theatre production of guys & dolls that just erupted into a rugby scrum.
Glenn Marsala You
know, it occurs to me that the film, Lawrence of Arabia, really
captured the strange contradictions and futilities of truly seeing
another culture, while simultaneously facing a self filled with demons
and demogoguery. Just the power of David Lean's
metaphysical meditation on loving the underdo, as an alieng? Fooling
the self with an ideology based on an outsider's perspective of what
this ancient and turbulent land that may be the historical and
psychological heart of our collective unconscious as homo sapiens...?
& there is nothing like the rude realization that the native's honor
can never be ours to grasp. The self, that blond, blue-eyed,
preternaturally cleanshaven
Peter
O'Toole ... can it ever be redeemed?
---I wrote those thoughts on book to face, or something. The way through this madness, this sickness, this loveliness? Forward.
