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Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
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Date: Wed, 25-Sep-85 21:01:00 EDT
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	Communism and Tarot, what wonderful topics.
My own quest for deterministic security led me to Marx & Lenin
in an attempt to understand history.  I find the principles of Marxism
provide a method of analysis to understand what the moving
forces of history are, and what the moving forces of an individual are.
Where does this analysis lead?
	1. labor produces all value.
	2. capitalism turns everything into a commodity,
	   including people.
	3. ugly capitalists steal everything they can.
	4. they who have the gold make the rules, and enforce them with
	   viscious killers, and mass industrial death.
	5. We are all determining our collective futures by the ideology
	   we are living with.
This picture can leave one rather nervous and scared.  I don't have much
faith in "Modern Civilization".

I still approach my Tarot card readings with a dose of skepticism, how
can the mere shuffling of these cards yield any significant information
about life?  A mere randomization?  No, I make choices how long to shuffle
and where to cut the deck.  And behold, a perfect message.  Did somebody
switch the deck on me?  Is this just paranoid hallucination?  No, I can share
the meaning of this with my friends.  I find it an intuitive map to the
social and psychic order.  A very wise and very deep spiritual vein
of humanity has brought this book of dangerous visions through the ages.
I recommend: The Feminist Tarot.  Conclusions: Never.


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