SLSL Succession of the Criminally Insane (was Has anyone seen a Pynchon book lately?)

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> > <<"(...) that succession of the criminally insane who
> > have enjoyed power since 1945.">>
> >
> This is actually a favorite of mine, valid considering the activities and
> mindsets of world leadership in this post-Holocaust, post-Hiroshima era of
> rocketry.  And, coincidentally, it's also consistent with what Kurt Vonnegut
> has said and written recently about "psychopathic personalities" or "smart,
> personable people who have no conscience" who enjoy power. (I think it may
> be very significant that Pynchon chose the word "enjoy" rather than "held.")

It seems to me that if the political system is designed to support 
schizophrenic ideals (reality and symbol not related), then PPs are 
the only people who will find its call appealing. Detached from the 
reality, they exist purely in worlds of self-assertion and/or 
negation.

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