Indian Mindset: 20160726
Is there such a creature as an Indian? There may be, but you will never found it. An Indian pure and simple is rare as griffin or an Assyrian bull
How should it be otherwise? The Indian is not a person, but a patchwork. Indeed, he reminds you of Ibsen's famous onion-one layer, then another, then another, and finally, nothing.
It is the peeling of the various layers that causes much trouble. Each layer tells its own tale and, what is unbelievable, is not part of an organic whole. The result is that the so-called Indian is the most contradictory of persons. He is perpetually at war with himself.
Not knowing himself, he is ubable to understand others. Our metaphysics, wonderful as they are, have tried to solve this confusion, but in vain. Our multilayered soul remains hidden and unfathomable.
But why are Indians what they are?
[will continue ......]
Sunder T
Is there such a creature as an Indian? There may be, but you will never found it. An Indian pure and simple is rare as griffin or an Assyrian bull
How should it be otherwise? The Indian is not a person, but a patchwork. Indeed, he reminds you of Ibsen's famous onion-one layer, then another, then another, and finally, nothing.
It is the peeling of the various layers that causes much trouble. Each layer tells its own tale and, what is unbelievable, is not part of an organic whole. The result is that the so-called Indian is the most contradictory of persons. He is perpetually at war with himself.
Not knowing himself, he is ubable to understand others. Our metaphysics, wonderful as they are, have tried to solve this confusion, but in vain. Our multilayered soul remains hidden and unfathomable.
But why are Indians what they are?
[will continue ......]
Sunder T
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