The mindset so extreme that a simple encounter in a bar can lead to frozen death on a Wyoming barbed wire fence . There is no talking across this gap because it arises from the living of such vastly different lives. Waters of course would be easily able to listen and actually hear what Barr was saying. But Barr could not, because Waters's very words would be pushing all of his fear buttons. Because he comes from, and still inhabits, a culture, a very old culture, in which the powerful pleasure of sex is so threatening that it has to be guarded against at all times, at all costs.
Eternal vigilance is the price of repression.
At the impeachment hearings, on one side of the chairman's seat, we had an array of such people, not necessarily unintelligent, who got to where they are by adamantly refusing to question authority, external and internal. On the other side, an array of people who have created lives out of the struggle toward freedom. The iron curtain may be gone. END Send this page to a friend.