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No colony in their empire gave the British more trouble than the island of Ireland. No subject people proved more rebellious than the Irish. From misty start to unending finish, Irish revolt against colonial rule has been the leitmotif that runs through the entire history of empire, causing problems in Ireland, in England itself, and in the most distant parts of the British globe. The British affected to ignore or forget the Irish dimension to their empire, yet the Irish were always present within it, and wherever they landed and established themselves, they never forgot where they had come from.
The British often perceived the Irish as "savages", and they used Ireland as an experimental laboratory for the other parts of their overseas empire, as a place to ship out settlers from, as well as a territory to practise techniques of repression and control. Entire armies were recruited in Ireland, and officers learned their trade in its peat bogs and among its burning cottages. Some of the great names of British military history – from Wellington and Wolseley to Kitchener and Montgomery – were indelibly associated with Ireland. The particular tradition of armed policing, first patented in Ireland in the 1820s, became the established pattern until the empire's final collapse.
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Robin Goodfellow is the archetypal prankster and trickster of Britain. Almost everything we know about him comes from a curious 17th century pamphlet which rejoices in the title Robin Goodfellow, alias Puck, alias Hob: his mad pranks, and merry jests, ful
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Myth is the earliest form of science. It gives speculation on how the world came into being. Often a myth is something that only begins to work where our own senses end. Myths have persisted for centuries and they continue to fascinate us. Myths are the earliest form of literature which, of course, began as an oral literature.
"What is made abundantly clear from the brutal nature of Kody Scott's initiation is that what one society designates as sacred may be very different than what another society deems as sacred. What may be morally acceptable and righteous behavior for one c
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The absence of rites of passage leads to a serious breakdown in the process of maturing as a person. Young people are unable to participate in society in a creative manner because societal structures no longer consider it their responsibility to intentionally establish the necessary marks of passing from one age-related social role to another, such as: child to youth, youth to adult, adult to elder. The result is that society has no clear expectation of how people should participate in these roles and therefore individuals do not know what is required by society.
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Through the ritual of initiation, the gang creates and reaffirms that which is sacred for the community.
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"Money only exists as an agreement. We agree on a value and then act as if it were true. There is no absolute value of anything, it is just an agreement of what we will pay for something. What is happening now is not that the foreclosed houses or the stoc
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Money only exists as an agreement. We agree on a value and then act as if it were true. There is no absolute value of anything, it is just an agreement of what we will pay for something. What is happening now is not that the foreclosed houses or the stocks or the banks have no value, it is that we cannot figure out what the value is; we cannot come to an agreement. Money is the mythology of our time — on every single level of our existence — including this very basic physical level of exchange rate, valuation etc. Value is a shared story.
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Mythology/shared story is the basis of group formation. Human beings must have each other for survival.
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"This "Parzivalian puer" is the one of the middle ground. It is the puer integrated with the senex to become a being who wields the wisdom of both worlds. The creative, unmanaged, wanton world of the unconscious integrated with the structured, ordered, ca
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In the moment of the suppression of the unconscious, the psyche becomes divided, the unconscious no longer informs conscious thought or action, and the unconscious is disassociated from the conscious. Joseph Campbell describes the modern state of the human psyche this way and it is also relevant to the condition which Parzival represents; "The lines of communication between the conscious and the unconscious zones of the human psyche have all been cut, and we have been split in two" (Hero 388)
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The "child within" becomes a critical agent for the health of human kind, the absolute necessary element of healthy and whole human existence. As necessary as the development of the ego is for a healthy and functioning human adult, it can also become the adult's, and indeed the world's, most obstinate obstacle.
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