"fascistic disposition" paragraph

[Terrance]

Terrance wrote:
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> Is Subjectivism  encouraged by the impersonal techniques P employs?
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>  The effort to avoid signs of explicit evaluation can be peculiarly
> hazardous for the author who goes out of his way to keep himself out of
> his work.


Again, some of material in the Foreword can be traced to young Tom. And,
in giving the impression that judgment is withheld, Tom seems to almost
hide from himself the fact that he is asking for his reader's sympathies
without providing clear and adequate reasons. 

So it's the reader's fault if he feels any excessive or unjustified
compassion. 

Who me? Wha? I didn't say anything about those of us living under a
government that is sliding toward fascism. Did I? 

Such narrative rationalizations are most evident in detective fiction. 

We believe and doubt at the same time--it seems a condition of
political thought in a modern superstate to be permanently of at least
two minds on most issues. Needless to say, this is of inestimable use to
those in power
who wish to remain there, preferably forever." (xiii)

"Except for the succession of the criminally
insane who have enjoyed power since 1945, including the power to do
something about it, the rest of us poor sheep have always been stuck
with simple, standard fear." 

"It may yet turn out that racial differences are not as basic as
questions of money and power, but have served a useful purpose, often in
the interest of those who deplore them most, in keeping us divided and
relatively poor and powerless."