(urth) a false coin

[David Stockhoff]

I agree with this:

If someone feigns evil for long enough they become evil.


On 1/3/2011 2:10 PM, Lee Berman wrote:
>
>> David, I was reminded of an addition to our discussion of "Author as Demiurge": Gene Wolfe's
>> home address on St. Croix is 666 Saltimbanque St.- the Satanic Performer
>   
>> David Stockhoff- How would you see that? Perhaps you are thinking of the author as acrobat or
>> mountebank (that is, a hint that Wolfe is playing the trickster), but it could also mean that
>> the existence of true evil is false: evil is a performance. or is evil in the act and not the
>> intent? that might be overthinking.
>
> No, not overthinking. Entirely and directly to the point, I think. We on this list have focused
> on the principle of feigning goodness long enough that it becomes the truth. What about the reverse?
> If someone feigns evil for long enough they become evil.
>
> I am suggesting that Lucifer and Judas might be considered the truest and most faithful companions
> of God and Jesus because they faithfully carried out their necessary roles, knowing what it would
> do to them. What it would make them become.
>
>


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