{"id":397991,"date":"2019-03-05T00:33:45","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T23:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-fascinating-spell-cast-by-weasels\/"},"modified":"2019-03-05T00:33:45","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T23:33:45","slug":"the-fascinating-spell-cast-by-weasels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-fascinating-spell-cast-by-weasels\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fascinating Spell Cast by Weasels"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.\u00a0 Hence one must choose a master, God being out of style.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Albert Camus, <em>The Fall, 1956<br \/><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>To be fascinated by another person who holds or symbolizes power is very common.\u00a0 It is often accompanied by a frisson of sexual excitement, whether repressed or acknowledged, explicitly or implicitly projected.\u00a0 Masters need slaves and slaves need their masters.\u00a0 The chief, the big man, the fascinating woman, the glamorous celebrity, the rich mogul, the powerful politician, while all standard vintage people without their accoutrements of prestigious (magical) power, magnetically attract many people wishing to surrender passively to the perceived superior power of what Carl Jung called the \u201cmana-personality.\u201d\u00a0 However, such supernatural power or aura is in the eyes of the beholder, who wishes to be hypnotized and to fulfill his secret wish to be will-less.\u00a0 As Dostoevsky has written, \u201cMan is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.\u201d\u00a0 A smile, a song, or the projection of unconflicted authority \u2013 often that is all it takes for the spell to be cast.<\/p>\n<p>Think of weasels.\u00a0 They are very vicious and can be found all around the world.\u00a0 Their cute faces belie their treacherous nature.\u00a0 They have the ability to fascinate their victims \u2013 fascinate&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2019\/03\/the-fascinating-spell-cast-by-weasels\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.\u00a0 Hence one must choose a master, God being out of style. \u2014 Albert Camus, The Fall, 1956 To be fascinated by another person who holds or symbolizes power is very common.\u00a0 It is often accompanied [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-397991","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}