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>I suspect there is a problem here (a friend calls it ``the `wimpification'
>of the American male''), but I don't think it is just a male problem.  I
>think it is the result of the increasingly self-concious nature of the
>American psyche: our intense obsession with ``self-image'', and with such
>self-centered emotions as guilt, greed, and vengence.  The reason men and
>not women are perceived as developing this affliction is that the
>traditional female role covers it well by allowing it to be couched in
>passive terms.  But I think that a ``crisis of the will'' exists in both
>sexes.
>
>It isn't so much that people need to ``get in touch'' with a particular
>part of themselves--such inward direction is already over-indulged in.
>Perceptions and actions are already far too colored by self-expectations
>and rationalizations.  We insist on being ``in control'' (a good part of
>the evil side of the male role manifests itself here) so that our selves
>can be pushed and manipulated into what we think they should be.  And if
>we now start thinking there is a ``hairy beast'' inside, we're sure to
>find it--or create it.  We've objectified ourselves: we've become objects.
>And objects are meant to be manipulated.
>
>What is the result of all this, of this self-divided-against-itself?
>Paralysis of the will.  If I spend all my effort trying to will myself
>into that person I ``know'' I am, how much is left to will action
>outside of myself?  Especially if that action is so strongly inter-
>twined with my self-image.  And since my reign on my actions and
>perceptions is only so strong, what happens when they get away from
>me?  Self-restraint has all been concentrated in one place.
>
>		-Ed Hall
>		decvax!randvax!edhall
>

WOW !!! Billy Graham couldn't have said it any better.   A REAL Revelation.

WayneZ...