Thanks, and I realize that in my first post I didn't adequately celebrate your article; I'll do that now. You've very succinctly and thoroughly encapsulated the spirit of 10th Planet with your blog post. Rejecting authority alone as a valid basis for belief, we embrace the free exchange of ideas. Eddie is a friend and a brilliant thinker, but far from infallible. As you perfect put it: "Each of those people I honor as my teachers but respect them enough not to beatify them..."
And any discussion of Into the Wild stirs up an uneasy feeling my own wellbeing. Sometimes our fear of heights comes from the knowledge that a small part of us wants to make the jump. I know that I'm only barely civilized, that my connections to the world at large are frail. It is easy to see myself stepping away from it all at only slight provocation, winding up alone and beyond salvation like McCandless or Evan Tanner. I guess I tell myself that I can't do jiujitsu alone.
And any discussion of Into the Wild stirs up an uneasy feeling my own wellbeing. Sometimes our fear of heights comes from the knowledge that a small part of us wants to make the jump. I know that I'm only barely civilized, that my connections to the world at large are frail. It is easy to see myself stepping away from it all at only slight provocation, winding up alone and beyond salvation like McCandless or Evan Tanner. I guess I tell myself that I can't do jiujitsu alone.
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