“You are in Great Pain,
aren't you?
You KNOW
What Evil lurks in The Hearts of Men,
for you have •seen•
That Evil in Your OWN Heart.
Every Man pays A Price for Redemption
— This is Yours.”
“I’m not lookin' for Redemption!”
“You Have
NO CHOICE --
You WILL be redeemed,
Because •I• will Teach you to
USE Your Black Shadow
to FIGHT Evil.”
“So, you know, I have felt that
The Men have suffered a great deal
in losing The Wild Man,
which is a certain form of
spontaneity connected with
The Wilderness itself.
And they’ve suffered a great deal
since the Second World War
in losing The Warrior.
It’s very strange how this works.
We gave up the The King, that is,
we founded our country
with getting rid of The King.
And you know,
The King is weak in American Men also
How can it be otherwise?
MOYERS:
The King being–
BLY:
The King [being] The Part of The Man
that determines What He is Going to Do Now.
What My Course is Going to Be.
“ On December 16, 1961, The World turned upside down and inside out, and I was born, screaming, in America.
It was the end of
The American Dream,
just before we lost our innocence irrevocably,
and the TV Eye brought
The Horror of Our Lives
into our homes for all to see.
I was told when I grew up,
I could be anything I wanted –
A Fireman,
A Policeman,
A Doctor.
Even President,
it seemed.
And for the first time in The History of Mankind,
something new called
An 'Astronaut.'
But like many kids growing up
on a steady diet of Westerns,
I always wanted to be
The Cowboy Hero :–
That Lone Voice in The Wilderness
fighting Corruption and Evil, wherever I found it,
and standing for
Freedom, Truth and Justice.
And in my
Heart of Hearts,
I still track the remnants
of That Dream, wherever I go,
on my never-ending ride
into The Setting Sun.
“.....Unbelievable.
And you know what’s wild, people’s, er,
attitudes in the States about it.
Talking about Kennedy, people come up to me :
“Bill, quit talking about Kennedy, man.
Let it •go•. It was a long •time• ago –
just •forget• about it.”
And I’m like
“Alright, then don’t bring up Jesus to me.”
Why….?
And Why
The Hell Not….?
“Because you’re PISSING PEOPLE OFF, that’s •WHY• !!”
You bring up Kennedy,
you alienate registered Republicans;
You bring up Jesus,
you alienate atheists, liberals,
Movement Skeptics,
The Ron Paul People,
and
ALL non-Christians —
•Nobody• has a problem with
King Arthur....
The man didn’t even instigate A Crusade, for crying out loud....
“Bill, you know Jesus died for your si -”
Yeah, well it was
a long time ago.
Forget about it!
How about this —
Get Pilate to release the fuckin’ files..!!
Quit washing your hands Pilate – Release The Goddam Files.
Who else was on that grassy Golgotha that day?
“Bill, it was just, you know, hur,
The Taking-over of Democracy
by a Totalitarian Government,
let it go—”
" There is A Way of Bringing up The Child of a Samurai.
From the time of infancy one should
encourage bravery and avoid trivially frightening or teasing the child.
If a person is affected by cowardice
as A Child, it remains a lifetime scar.
It is a mistake for parents to thoughtlessly make their children dread lightening, or to have them not go into dark places, or to tell them frightening things in order to stop them from crying.
Furthermore, A Child will become timid
if he is scolded severely.
One should not allow bad habits to form.
After a bad habit is ingrained,
although you admonish the child,
he will not improve.
As for such things as proper speaking and good manners,
gradually make the child aware of them.
Let him not know avarice.
Other than that, if he is of a normal nature,
he should develop well by the way he is brought up.
Moreover, the child of parents who
have a bad relationship will be unfilial.
This is natural. Even the birds and beasts are affected
by what they are used to seeing and hearing
from the time they are born.
Also, the relationship between Father and Child
may deteriorate because of A Mother's Foolishness.
A Mother loves Her Child above all things,
and will be partial to The Child
that is corrected by His Father.
If she becomes The Child's Ally,
there will be discord between Father and Son.
Because of the shallowness of her mind,
A Woman sees The Child as her support in old age. "
“So therefore, with My Father, I do not want or need to be shamed by him any longer.
Well, that means that there has been some movement to get the doorknob on the inside of the door.
That’s called A Warrior. A
Warrior is NOT someone that goes off and kills. That’s the negative Warrior.
That’s the one that’s without The King.
But each of us needs our Warrior desperately.
Women have a very fierce Warrior in them, you know. They have a very fierce Warrior. And I would say that the women, in the last 20 years, have a much greater sense of their own boundaries than The Men do.
So, you know, I have felt that the men have suffered a great deal in losing THE WILD MAN, which is a certain form of spontaneity connected with The Wilderness ITSELF.
And they’ve suffered a great deal since the Second World War in losing The Warrior.
It’s very strange how this works.
We gave up The King, that is, we founded Our Country with getting rid of The King. And you know, The King is WEAK in American Men also; how can it be otherwise?”
MOYERS:
The King being–
BLY:
The King [being] the part of The Man that determines what he is going to do now. What my course is going to be.
MOYERS:
The King can decide that for himself. That’s the whole image.
BLY:
This is the inner King, the one who’s down there, who decides. And when he comes in “Follow your bliss,” is what Joe Campbell said. That means that the king decides that. You don’t join IBM and then do what your boss wants you to do. That means there’s only one king in the whole thing, and that’s the boss, and everybody else is a non-king.
MOYERS:
It’s the way the world works.
BLY:
Yeah, it’s the way it works. That’s the way it destroys inner kings in all of the men and in most of the women. So the king, then, is that part of you that can decide. And I mean it’s very private, too, because there are various kinds of kings.
