(December 16, 2011 at 11:29 am)whateverist Wrote: .He is one among many who managed to deceive us by concealing our true identity.
He is one among many whose insights give us all a leg up in making sense of the world and our selves.
The gods judged and exterminated people in exactly the same way as the Nazis did it.
When humanity learned at first about the Nazi atrocities it was reluctant to believe in them. If the example of the crimes of the gods had given a lesson as to what men were capable of doing, they would have not hesitated in believing.
Moreover, when the civilized Australians commenced their plan to extinguish the Aboriginal tribes, the rest of the “civilized” world would have had the sensors to detect one more relapse of the mental sickness of "judgment and extermination".
Campbell, to me, was a philosophizing child.