Every show I have heard the past few days I couldn't help but notice how all these guys are so caught up in their own legend ( in their own mind ) that they all talk themselves up with stories of "I brought this up first", "everybody's buying my book", "I am so fucking great", etc.
I found it to be a pitiful experience how the callers all fawn over the radio personality and use them to validate themselves. I'm sure this applies to both sides of the talk radio experience. Talk radio is making people sick inside.
From Campbell’s The Power Of Myth, page 183, ‘The Hero’s Adventure’:
Moyer: When I take that journey and go down there and slay those dragons, do I have to do it alone?
Campbell: If you have someone who can help you, that’s fine, too. But ultimately, the last deed has to be done by oneself. Psychologically, the dragon is one’s own binding of oneself to one’s ego. We’re captured in our own dragon cage. The problem of the psychiatrist is to disintegrate that dragon, break him up, so that you may expand to a larger field of relationships. The ultimate dragon is within you, it is the dragon clamping you down.
Moyer: What’s my ego?
Campbell: What you think you want, what you will to believe, what you think you can afford, what you decide to love, what you regard yourself as bound to. It may all be too small, in which case it will nail you down. And If you simply do what your neighbors tell you to do, you’re certainly going to be nailed down. Your neighbors are then your dragon as it reflects from within yourself.
Our Western dragons represent greed. However, the Chinese dragon is different. It represents the vitality of the swamps and comes up beating its belly and bellowing ‘Haw ha ha haww.’ That’s a lovely dragon, one that yields the bounty of the waters, a great, glorious gift. But the dragon of our Western tales tries to collect and keep everything to himself. In his secret cave he guards things: heaps of gold, and perhaps a captured virgin. But he doesn’t know what to do with either, so he guards and keeps. There are people like that, and we call them creeps. There’s no life from them, no giving. They just glue themselves to you and hang around and try to suck out of you their life.
