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When dealing with the insane, it is best to pretend to be sane. --Herman Hesse

Pride and Prejudice
The Existential Condition
The Human Being Becoming Humane

It was only very late in my life that I began to understand "The Borderline Nature" as an archetype. I gathered my understanding from reading "The Eternal Now" and "My Search For Absolutes" by Paul Tillich.

"The Eternal Now" offered the keys to the kingdom, so to speak, to decipher the films "Apocalypse Now" and "Battlefield Earth"; i.e., classical archetypal scenarios comparable to the "Bagavad Gita."

In each film presentation, the key symbolic features deal with "The Personality Attitudes of the Psychlos." (Probable references: psyche, psyclone, psyclonic, psycho-logical, the whirl-pool, the whirl-wind, the eternal spiral, etc.)

Colonel Kurtz, a relatively remote and extreme form of the borderline personality, was in a devoted search for absolutes in a primeval-primitive sense. In his search, the colonel broke all the accepted cultural rules of organized social militancy (religiosity), as the established boundary-lines of sanity.

If you look around the world at all the "hot spots," the "confrontational zones," you can understand how it is that whole communities of a culture (as nationality) can get "locked up" and "bound into conflicts of identity" over geographical circumstances and situations.

A recent European film, "NO MAN'S LAND," illustrates just how rigid and self-destructive these "Personality Disorders and Relationship Issues" can become in terms of racial, communal, and cultural attitudes, as "Individual and Family Types."

In a very real way one is born into "The Psychosocial Crisis" as a programmed accepted-abstraction of reality.

Prevailing attitudes can then run for generations as "Power Of Place Perspectives," in self-defense and about face. The "primeval-primitive" archetype can also be viewed in the opening scenario of "2001: A Space Odyssey: The Dawn of Man."