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Oedipus

 

            The Man From La Mancha is a story about an old man who after reading inspiring stories about chivalrous knights defeating dragons and rescuing damsels in distress decides to go out on a mission to find a spotless virgin to devote himself to and fight in her honor against evil but because of senility and his poor eyesight he winds up mistaking a bar maid for a lady of honor and a windmill for a fire breathing dragon. This same scenario crops up in the Oedipus complex individual who devotes himself to fight against illusionary evil in order to rescue some imagined damsel in distress. Marxist-feminism is a also such a tale, only in this case, the aspiring knight is a lesbian fighting against an evil patriarchal system and rescuing women from some abusive male chauvinist pig of a husband. Typically the Marxist-feminist sees the world from the standpoint of an infantile mind where the father is an evil that comes between the infant and the mother and this pattern of thought attaches itself to anything that can remotely symbolize an evil patriarch and the mother beloved. Some people devote their whole lives to reliving the infantile the family romance triangle in every situation that can remotely give itself to such an interpretation. The works of Karl Marx is such a devotion to the elimination of the evil patriarch and the establishment of a Utopian paradise that is reminiscent of the infant's experience in the uterus before he was evicted from this realm by some evil force that was later identified by our infantile hero as the father/capitalist/landlord. Abstract things can symbolize the parents such as the ecology issue where the evil patriarch is found in big industry that pollutes the mother's body that is symbolized by the earth. Both Hollywood and modern politics use the Oedipus scenario to captivate their audiences because it is highly effective. Moreover, politics and the economy have found that by promoting the Oedipus complex in their audience, they can corral the thought patterns of vast numbers of individuals into a mass collective.


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