"And mercy then will breathe within your lips"
Chapter 8 : Apocalyptic Xenophilia: An Exercise in Self-Exhortation
The anal retentiveness that can't say baby, entrenched in the bipolar thinking of "Us and Them," is threatened by the life-giving spirit of an imagination that speaks truth to power. It will find apocalyptic offensive and deeply problematic, because its own world, it is absolutely sure, is unproblematic. The tightness is an absence of elasticity and good humor strengthened by its conviction that it already knows almost everything worth knowing, the despair that calls itself "realism." Apocalyptic makes us more repentantly aware of reality and relieves us of the need to demonize, or ignore altogether, the odd and the unknown.