The article I am choosing to talk about for today is called: Pursuing God and Sex: The Warring Obsessions of Phillip Garrido’s Life. By Maria L. La Ganga.
The article is about Phillip Garrido’s struggle between the Jesus and his sexual fantasies. About his Manifesto re: Jesus saving his life from the dark corners of pornography, lit by the florescent bulbs of guilt. And then there’s all that LSD he took. His father said he was ruined after that…
God, we are creatures of extremes. I’m not saying we all Rape and Pray, not exactly. But, to some extent Garrido is just an extreme of our extremes. Deranged, yes, definitely – regular brain wires on speed, distorted, off-track.
All of us have wars inside us. The good and bad angel on each shoulder; our nations’ balance between war and peace; our binging and purging; our fighting and making up…If what keeps us in check is the ability to balance our extremes, keeping us from not going too far off each end, isn’t Garrido just what happens when we lose control. Maybe that's obvious. But it makes me think about the word "control" and what it really means. Makes me wonder where this control comes from to begin with and if it isn’t the core of what we call morality? But then, do we ever truly have complete command over ourselves – isn’t that the biggest struggle there is; why people go to therapy and read self-help books, dip themselves in holy water, light candles, and celebrate “new” years as clean slates?
Other things learned/gleaned from the LA Times today:
1. The LA Times is a great paper -- Journalist Ashley Powers, for one, writes like an angel: “The Strip kept adding hotel, and suburbs chewed through the desert.” Nice rhythm, nice image.
2. Speaking of writers – Nicholson Baker has a new book out: The Anthologist – going to go buy that.
3. Christian Poveda, French-born documentary filmmaker was killed by the gang he documented and talked bout “trusting.” – “If you look long enough down the throat of the lion, he will eat you.”
The article is about Phillip Garrido’s struggle between the Jesus and his sexual fantasies. About his Manifesto re: Jesus saving his life from the dark corners of pornography, lit by the florescent bulbs of guilt. And then there’s all that LSD he took. His father said he was ruined after that…
God, we are creatures of extremes. I’m not saying we all Rape and Pray, not exactly. But, to some extent Garrido is just an extreme of our extremes. Deranged, yes, definitely – regular brain wires on speed, distorted, off-track.
All of us have wars inside us. The good and bad angel on each shoulder; our nations’ balance between war and peace; our binging and purging; our fighting and making up…If what keeps us in check is the ability to balance our extremes, keeping us from not going too far off each end, isn’t Garrido just what happens when we lose control. Maybe that's obvious. But it makes me think about the word "control" and what it really means. Makes me wonder where this control comes from to begin with and if it isn’t the core of what we call morality? But then, do we ever truly have complete command over ourselves – isn’t that the biggest struggle there is; why people go to therapy and read self-help books, dip themselves in holy water, light candles, and celebrate “new” years as clean slates?
Other things learned/gleaned from the LA Times today:
1. The LA Times is a great paper -- Journalist Ashley Powers, for one, writes like an angel: “The Strip kept adding hotel, and suburbs chewed through the desert.” Nice rhythm, nice image.
2. Speaking of writers – Nicholson Baker has a new book out: The Anthologist – going to go buy that.
3. Christian Poveda, French-born documentary filmmaker was killed by the gang he documented and talked bout “trusting.” – “If you look long enough down the throat of the lion, he will eat you.”
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