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Tsongas is by all indications a nice guy. He's probably more honest than the average politician, and his Greek immigrant heritage gives him a keen appreciation of the American dream...
Like Bly and most of the other men's-movement figures, Keen is a kind of hairy-chested Jungian, having adapted Jung's scholarly theories of the inner journey to the American guy's daily struggle. Both Bly and Keen are also spiritual disciples of Joseph Campbell (Keen and Campbell often conducted seminars together), and all three are linked to that great facilitator in the satellite-dotted sky Bill Moyers. Moyers has conducted PBS interviews with Campbell, Keen and Bly, giving each of their books a video assist onto the best-seller list. What Oprah is to books like...
...Keen attributes the success of his book to his sense that we are in an epochal moment in history. "All the metaphors of Western culture are beginning to change," he says. "The warrior metaphor has shaped men's lives for hundreds of years. That is changing, but it will take another hundred years. The code we have to break is that of the warrior psyche." Keen, like Bly, regards the recent gulf war as a return to old and discredited metaphors, more a problem of George Bush's unresolved male identity than geopolitics. Man, he says, must become a custodian...
...conversation, Keen recalls how he wrestled competitively in graduate school, and that his matches were aggressive, never hostile. Aggression, he says, is focused energy, not enmity. He wants men to be able to be aggressive without being hostile. That is the focused if occasionally fuzzy mission of his book. Fire in the Belly is as much about being human as being...
There is reason to hope calmer emotions will prevail. Slovenes are ) undoubtedly dismayed that no country has recognized their independence. The Yugoslav army, in turn, has received no encouragement for its actions, and speculation is keen that senior officers will be held accountable for excesses once civilian order is restored. Perhaps the most encouraging sign is that many among the estimated 500 prisoners of war taken by Slovenia turned themselves in. If civilians and troops alike can signal their interest in cooling the hotheads, perhaps there is still hope that Yugoslavia can settle its differences peacefully...