From: ml (mbtlehn@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Mon Aug 02 2004 - 06:01:47 BST
> msh says:
> The Painted Bird is the perfect symbol of the Brujo, don't you think?
> Is the Brujo a stranger, the outsider scapegoat created by society,
> or someone just mystically different and therefore abhorrent to
> order? Kosinski reveals both sides: if the Brujo is unlike the
> members of the herd, he is cast out of the group and destroyed; if he
> is like them, but a Scapegoat is required, society intervenes and
> makes him appear different, so that he may be cast out and destroyed.
>
> This is what discrimination, invalidation and scapegoating is all
> about, I think. We search for differences to alienate the Brujo,
> creating or emphasizing them, if we must. By casting out the Brujo
> we comfort ourselves. To herd animals, like us, safety lies in
> similarity. This is why conformity is welcomed, and deviance
> despised. Society everywhere conspires against the individuality of
> its members.
>
> So is the Brujo a mystical other, or just a painted bird?
>
> Thoughts, anyone?
Well placed analogy. Kosinski being who he was in the Polish
WWII experience was also pointing to the distasteful choice,
immoral in his child's eye of Pole turning on their own kind in
the false coloring of them by others (nazi)...
thanks--mel
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