[UA] The Masterless Man/The Wave Man/Japanese Mentality vs. American

[James McGraw]

>>> Con_Job at excite.com 05/15/01 07:29pm >>>
>  America hasn't
>ever lost territory in a war.

What about the Civil War? Surely both sides were American, so _one_ of them had to lose ground? :-)

>All romance aside, that figure holds the tragic quality of the wave man, and
>of the American Archtypes, it's the only one I can think of that really
>does. 

I think the journalistic spin on this mentioned by Stu (I think) could work, but with a different spin. Possibly The Man Who Knows Too Much, and who is sacked, ostracised by his former colleagues and generaly cast out from society because of his refusal to ignore the Conspiracy (or whatever). Big Jim Tucker (from the Bilderberg group article at http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4149256,00.html that I mentioned a while back) could be an avatar.

james the cat

"22:00: I am now standing opposite Bruce Forsyth 
shouting 'higher' or 'lower'.  I don't know why.  I do 
know, however, that Armageddon is actually 
a place."
       Paul Tooby


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