Obama about T. S. Eliota

Today I read the non -business passage and private letter, which Barack Obama wrote at the age of 22. I put it in a haste:

“For a year now I have not re -read the“ barren earth ”, and I never bore to read all the footnotes, but I would risk saying the following:“ Eliot contains the same ecstatic visions that stretch from Münzer to Yates. Nevertheless, Eliot retains rootedness in the social reality / order of his era. Considering what he perceives as a choice between ecstatic chaos and a lifeless mechanistic order, he is inclined to maintain the separation of asexual innocence and brutal sexual reality. He prefers the Stoic mask. Read his essay “Tradition and individual talent”, as well as “four quarters”, where he pays less attention to the image of dying Europe to understand what I mean. Remember, I mentioned that there is a certain kind of conservatism, which I respect more than bourgeois liberalism? Eliot is a good example. Of course, the dichotomy that he supports is reactionary, but this is not due to ignorance, but with his deep fatalism. (Compare it with immigrants from the same environment - Yates and Pound, who preferred to support Hitler and Mussolini). And this fatalism - the product of the relationship between fertility and death, which I wrote about in the previous letter - life devours itself. I myself from time to time share the similar fatalism of the Western tradition. You seem to be surprised by the insoluble ambivalence of Eliot, but don't you share her yourself, Alex? ”

"I hasen 'The Waste Land" for a year, and I Never Did Bother to Check All the Footnotes. But I Will Hazard States States --eliot Contains Runs from Münzer to Yeats. Mechanistic ORDER, He Accedes to Mainting A Separation of Asexual Puryity and Brutal Sexual Reality. Individual Talent, As Four Quartets, When He's Less Concerned with Depicting Moribund Europe, To Catch A Sense of What I Speak. Certain Kind of Conservatism Which I Respect More than Bourgeois Liberalism --eliot Is of this Type. Deep Fatalism, Not Ignorance. The Relation Between Fertility and Death, Which I Touched on in My Last Letter - Life Feeds on itself. A Fatalism I Share with The Western Tradition At Times. You Seem Surprised at Eliot's Irreconcilable Ambivalence; Don`t You Share This Ambivalence Yourself, Alex? "
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/2012/06/yoon-barack-obama-in-love-david-maranss

Taken here - http://satanovskiy.livejournal.com/411124.html