tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33488833.post7248140562549519697..comments2023-11-02T02:14:31.901-06:00Comments on ReadMoreWriteMoreThinkMoreBeMore: 30 Day Song Challenge, Day 12: A Song From A Band You HateDoctor Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13189506916480012553noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33488833.post-69621144606020487802011-06-12T15:32:35.285-05:002011-06-12T15:32:35.285-05:00Also, if I may, the notion of "drinking the k...Also, if I may, the notion of "drinking the kool-aid" is circulated quite a bit in politics, pop culture, and so on... but it is interesting to me in that it contains subtle and perhaps opposite connotations within itself. Variously meaning something hallucinogenic, inducing madness, or something poisonous, fatal... it is akin to the <i>pharmakon</i>, isn't it? And it naturally is the perfect "scapegoat", even if it is ever so hard to pin down and define.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04740079839363651376noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33488833.post-51560927340522331132011-06-12T15:05:46.646-05:002011-06-12T15:05:46.646-05:00Hi Doctor J. I am hoping this blog is still open ...Hi Doctor J. I am hoping this blog is still open for comments... even if the "authentication protocol" of this age sometimes creates hermeneutic circles of closure, even in cyberspace... but I am not trying to be provocative, I really am curious why you dislike The Doors and Jim Morrison so much. Assuming that you don't dislike, say the saints themselves, it sounds like it is a matter of Morrison not being real or authentic, having a "Christ complex" and so forth rather than a true spiritual existence. Then it would even be once again an issue of the real and simulation perhaps, the horror you feel before a mindless adoration of a pop star as a kind of "uncanny valley" problem having to do with rejecting deception?<br /><br />And yet I have to suspect that things are not so simple... But just to be clear, are you saying that we must begin by rejecting or crossing out what is <i>known to be false</i>... that is, the pseudo-canonization of Jim Morrison?Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04740079839363651376noreply@blogger.com