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William Justice Bruehl (AKA Bill Bruehl) earned his PhD at The University Of Pennsylvania and is now Professor Emeritus of Theater Arts at Stony Brook University, New York and Honorary Professor Emeritus at Clemson University, SC. An artist, teacher, and scholar, Bruehl’s primary academic interest is Free Play. He is the author of 25 plays for the stage and 8 volumes of fiction and nonfiction. The National Endowment For The Arts awarded Bruehl a Fellowship for his work, which includes a volume exploring the psychological skills of performers, entitled “The Technique of Inner Action.” He wrote and performed the poems in his volume of narrative poetry, “The Fearsome Colors of Forsythia,” which is available on “Audible.” His memoir, “A Pilgrimage Like no Other,” focuses on his search for identity and meaning in life. Turning his playwright’s skills to narrative fiction, Bill published three short story collections and the novel titled “The Final Retreat from Yudam Ni,” a character study of a fictional US Marine involved in the Korean War. Bruehl’s latest work, a novel entitled, “The Mistress of Surfaces” explores the journey of a fictional American transwoman through life.

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Kipling, Tillman, and The Doctrine of Discovery

The thinking of 1500AD and the Pope’s Doctrine of Discovery influences our thinking today. Do you remember Kipling’s poem, The White Man’s Burden? “Take up the White Man’s burden/ Send forth the best ye breed/ Go send your sons to exile/ To serve your captives' need/ To wait in heavy harness/On fluttered folk and wild/ Your new-caught, sullen peoples,/ Half devil and half child…”. The famous poem is about the United States taking over the Philippines during the Spanish American War. Kipling saw the peoples of those Islands as “half devil and half child.” That was 1898. An influential American, Senator Tillman of South Carolina, read part of Kipling’s poem to the Senate and addressed President McKinley to the effect that the US should control the Philippines’ ten million people because they “are not suited to our institutions … not ready for liberty…do not want it.” The Senator, former Governor, a founder of the Red Shirt band formed to terrorize African Americans, and a founder of Clemson University, believed in the Pope’s Doctrine that we should colonize and enslave the brown peoples of the world. The influence of that Doctrine is still with us, but yesterday (4/26/21) Raj Patel, the Indian owner of The Tillman Hotel in Clemson, changed the name to The Hotel in Clemson. Clemson University also wishes to change the name of Tillman Hall on campus, but a 2/3d majority of the South Carolina Legislature must approve that change. Will they? Maybe. The dominance of white Euro male privilege has been shattered like never before in 500 years but the fight of many in my white male tribe continues. I ask, should we consider the Pope, Jefferson, Kipling, Tillman–and all those like John Muir–who believed white men are the best, to be evil? More tomorrow.

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