Aurobindian integralism does precisely what Hartigan describes

I'm reading Odd Tribes: Toward a Cultural Analysis of White People, and it's spot-on accurate apropos of the experience of how white trashness works on a daily basis. Dig: "[T]hey made reference to these families" (read: white trash families like mine) "to shore up advice that today would easily be construed as 'self-help.' In magazine articles and editorials as well as textbook chapters and political tracts, the consistent emphasis was on promoting self-examination and developing a mode of racial consciousness tuned primarily to the task of self-constitution" (91).

I'm reminded of two things here: while this Hartigan is discussion 19th century America, he might as well be considering the trash families that occupy Dr. Phil's House and so direly need Dr. Phil's middle-class interventions (if you believe Oprah, anyway).

Second: It's my view that Aurobindian integralism does precisely what Hartigan describes: the task of self-examination, or self-development, with an eye toward racial consciousness. Hartigan's thesis on the anxiety of whiteness generally supports my thesis on the specific subjective contingencies of the English empire and the birth of integralism as a means of resolving those contingencies, essentially putting a smiley face on the Wal-Mart of Empire. Always! I kind of wish I had this book available to me when I wrote that article on Aurobindo and ideology. posted by DGA at 3:11 PM Daniel Gustav Anderson Location: Moscow, Idaho