tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6811719312494990925.post-66051928913642812812007-05-19T22:04:00.000-07:002007-05-19T22:04:00.000-07:00Whalehunting...terrorist hunting...either way there's a lot of oil changing hands here. Anyway, I am wondering: If “it’s best to remember that Ahab, in the end, is not the only one who pays for his transgression,” then to what extent is Starbuck, and anyone else on board really, to be held responsible for allowing Ahab’s monomaniacal pursuit to come to such a ruinous end for them all? Asking this is, I think, to ask also, to what extent are we, as individuals and as a nation, (going) to be held responsible for allowing our Captain-elect to lead us into a similarly disastrous monomaniacal pursuit? The ending of the book makes it clear that Starbuck's voicing his objections is not enough to end the pursuit of Moby-Dick. But it's absurd to think that the whole crew of the Pequod couldn't have stopped that single, one-legged man, had they really seen the end to which he was taking them. I may write more on this later. For now, I guess what I’m saying is, here's hoping we all have brasser balls than Starbuck.m.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00152735154745182717noreply@blogger.com