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Ed Schmookler:
This is a fantastic summary, Andy.
It is stunning in its depth, thoroughness, and breadth.
It is written with simple clarity, but I had to read it in about five segments because each part is so intense and requires a space to absorb.
It is simple but it has unexpected turns. For example, the move away from nature usually has as a proposed solution to return to nature. Certainly, that has been part of the counter-culture's response in the past half-century. But that is not where you go at all. You go toward overarching rule to counter anarchy. So that takes time to absorb.
Your combining a tragic view along with a rewrite of Genesis without the sin would be enough, but you go much further.
As a Psychologist specializing in trauma for the past two decades, I can attest that your depiction of the impact of trauma -- and the importance of power issues often generating that trauma -- is deeply accurate. And your generalization of that to the social level is also evident to me in my practice.
Andy Schmookler:
Again, the best response I can give here is my thanks for your appreciative comment, Ed.
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Karen Berlin:
[Note: Karen is responding here not only to the piece, but also to a statement I made in an email to the co-creator group that "this entry feels in some way like a completion. I am considering this the concluding piece in what might be a Volume One."]
Andy, I agree that this could serve well as a concluding piece. My own readership waned with my recent travel, but picking up with #11, it reads as a summary and conclusive piece.
I particularly resonate with the tragic hero comparison, and continue to think on the postulate of the pair of human intelligence and creativity, the very strengths that feed continuous improvement in the human species, may in fact be the force behind judgment errors that inevitably leads to humanity's own destruction.
As always, well written, thought provoking, and truly a best offering of yourself. Your ideas, wisdom, experience and unique thought are reflected well here. Thank you for giving so fully of yourself so that others can have a window into your mind and be the better for it.
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