Note to “hippie blog” on endorsing Wesley Clark:

Excellent post – hold that thought. I understand what you say with your friends can’t believe you are voting for a military figure; but it is a problem of perception and illusion. Buddhism separates samsara (outer world) from nirvana (inner world); as the Christ put it, the two are coins of different realms. Politics is Outer World and require an outer world figure. Dems since the Sixties (Gene McCarthy) got the mistaken idea that an Inner World figure – a poet, a shaman, a “rock star”, Alice Waters – would make a good President, making Yang more Yin. The idea that an Inner World figure would cure the Outer World is inherently mistaken and turns both to mud; Yin and Yang live on different sides of the river. If you have neither solid Outer World figures (as Eisenhower and JFK were strong Outer World figures) nor solid Inner World figures (as the Dalai Lama is a strong Inner World figure today); you have not jack. It also brings in denial and escapism; we Dems like to lose – it makes us feel victimized and aloof and it relieves us from public responsibility (dharma; and it allows the Republicans to go to extremes without real competition as they are doing today). There is a psychological expression for the condition which results when you ask a spirit figure to do the work of a material figure. It is “anima polluted.” There is a much better street expression for this (anima pollution is the work of Kali, the Dark Mother who Sends Back Time; did somebody say pussy whipped?). - Quigley