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Interesting how the Wall Street Journal commentary referring to Tea Partiers as hobbits caught on after John McCain repeated it. Re: hobbits â€" Joseph Campbell wrote that myths reveal the deepest psychological passages of a people. The Lord of the Rings, by Oxford professor J.R.R. Tolkien, might be the most important myth of transition in modern times for the English-speaking people. I know a psychologist in Israel who says so. Because what the hobbits did was take the ring of power from golem and destroy both ring and golem. This can be seen in context of Rabbi Loeb of Prague’s great myth which introduced golem at the beginning of the modern age; golem the symbolic figure of rising unlimited power; golem the shadow which blocked the path of God and nature. The destruction of the ring and the golem allowed the world to be born again. Worth noting that the warrior Aragorn was not able to do that. Only the common people, the people of the earth, the hobbits! , were.

McCain expressed a kind of alienation from the rising times; that something was happening ... again ... and he doesn’t know what it is. But those pesky Tea Partiers were certainly behind it.

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