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The Enemy Maker

The Enemy Maker. By Sam Keen. Karina DePiano Jenna Harris Zoe de Lellis Sophie Graf.

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The Enemy Maker

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  1. The Enemy Maker By Sam Keen Karina DePiano Jenna Harris Zoe de Lellis Sophie Graf

  2. “Generation after generation, we find excuses to hate and dehumanize each other, and we always justify ourselves with the most mature-sounding political rhetoric. And we refuse to admit the obvious. We human beings are… the hostile species… We are driven to fabricate the enemy as a scapegoat to bear the burden of our denied enmity” (198).

  3. “Paranoia involves a complex of mental, emotional, and social mechanisms by which a person or a people claim righteousness and purity, and attribute hostility and evil to the enemy” (200).

  4. “…we create evil out of our highest ideals and most noble aspirations. We so need to be heroic, to be on the side of God, to eliminate evil, to clean up the world, to be victorious over death, that we visit destruction and death on all who stand in the way of our heroic historical destiny” (201-2).

  5. “The enemy system involves a process of two or more enemies dumping their (unconscious) psychological wastes in each others’ back yards. All we despise in ourselves we attribute to them. And vice versa … We form a hate bond, an ‘adversarial symbiosis,’ an integrated system that guarantees that neither of us will be faced with our own shadows” (200).

  6. “In the current U.S.S.R.-U.S. conflict, we require each other as group-transference targets … We see the Soviets as making the individual a mere means to the goals of the state. They see us as a sanctifying the greed of powerful individuals at the cost of community, and allowing the profit of the few at the expense of the many. And so long as we trade insults, we are both saved from the embarrassing task of looking at the serious faults and cruelties of our own systems” (201).

  7. Grendel was the name of this grim demonhaunting the marches, marauding round the heathand the desolate fens; he had dwelt for a timein misery among the banished monsters,Cain’s clan, whom the Creator had outlawedand condemned as outcasts. For the killing of Abelthe Eternal Lord had exacted a price:Cain got no good from committing that murderbecause the Almighty made him anathemaand out of the curse of his exile there sprangogres and elves and evil phantomsand the giants too who strove with Godtime and again until He gave them their reward. (102-114)

  8. Important Kennings! “ring giver” – king who dishes out spoils of war rather than hoarding the treasures “cup-bearers” – women; they served mead “peace-weavers” – women through the peace of arranging a marriage

  9. Anglo-Saxon Culture of War • Fighting was a way of life • Two peaceful ways to end a blood feud • Paying “the man price” (“wergild”) • Arranging a marriage (hence women as “peace weavers”) • Neither of these often worked; the Anglo-Saxons preferred fighting • Soldiers found their identity as warriors in the community

  10. Anglo-Saxon Values Shaped By War PRIDEHONOR LOYALTYGLORY FAME

  11. Code of Warriors Fight for Glory Protect and Avenge their King Preserve their Religion Defend the Liberties of their People

  12. War defines Social Order Kings=War-chief Royal Kinsmen Noblemen Freemen Slaves

  13. War Dictates Social Norms Blood Revenge/ Dueling Marriage Payment of Blood-money Shameful of Peacemaking Collective Responsibility in Revenge

  14. How Anglo-Saxons Fought Small- only a few hundred men Soldiers had spears, axes, swords and bows and arrows Helmets covered majority of head Wooden shields Most Feared Weapon: AX Most Precious Weapon: Sword

  15. Part-Time Soldiers Most soldiers had farms- after war they looked after crops and animals Ealdormen= Draft Part-Time Army= Fyrd

  16. Works Cited “An axe-hammer.” Photograph. BBC- Primary History. Web. 31 August 2011. "BBC - History: Anglo-Saxons." BBC - Homepage. Web. 01 Sept. 2011. Delahoyd, Michael. "Anglo-Saxon Culture." Washington State University - Pullman, Washington. Web. 01 Sept. 2011. Flemming, Thomas. "Anglo-Saxon Attitudes." Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture. Web. 01 Sept. 2011. Keen, Sam. "The Enemy Maker." Meeting the Shadow: The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature. Los Angeles: Jeremy P. Tarcher, 1991. 197-202. Print. “The Sutton Hoo Helmet.” Photograph. The Sutton Hoo Society. Web. 31 August 2011. “The Sutton Hoo Shield.” Photograph. The Sutton Hoo Society. Web. 31 August 2011.

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