Book 25. (7 results) Magicians of Gor (Context Quote)
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213
Such things are common where an enemy is feared.
10
214
They ape the feared enemy, and hope thereby, as though by some alchemy, to obtain his strength and success.
10
215
Such charades serve, too, as a form of cowardly camouflage.
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216
Knowing they have nothing to fear from their own people, they pretend they are like the enemy, perhaps in the hope that then they will have nothing to fear from him, as well.
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217
Too, such postures, costumes and mannerisms provide an easy way to attract attention to oneself, a welcome feature to one who may otherwise be unworthy of attention.
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218
Similarly, such charades provide, in more serious cases, a way of expressing one's alienation from one's own society, one's repudiation of it, and one's contempt of it.
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219
From this point of view then, such things may constitute a comprehensible, if somewhat silly, or ineffectual, form of protest.
Such things are common where an enemy is feared.
They ape the feared enemy, and hope thereby, as though by some alchemy, to obtain his strength and success.
Such charades serve, too, as a form of cowardly camouflage.
Knowing they have nothing to fear from their own people, they pretend they are like the enemy, perhaps in the hope that then they will have nothing to fear from him, as well.
Too, such postures, costumes and mannerisms provide an easy way to attract attention to oneself, a welcome feature to one who may otherwise be unworthy of attention.
Similarly, such charades provide, in more serious cases, a way of expressing one's alienation from one's own society, one's repudiation of it, and one's contempt of it.
From this point of view then, such things may constitute a comprehensible, if somewhat silly, or ineffectual, form of protest.
- (Magicians of Gor, Chapter )