The Mass Psychology of Fascism

Paul Mackin paul.mackin at verizon.net
Wed May 17 16:14:39 CDT 2006


On May 17, 2006, at 3:07 PM, Ghetta Life wrote:

>
>
>
>> From: Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net>
>>
>> On May 16, 2006, at 3:33 PM, Henry Musikar wrote:
>>
>>> If Reich was just another crackpot, then:
>>>
>>> 1. Why did the US Feds bust up his equipment, burn his  
>>> notebooks,  and put him in jail?  (It can't happen here [see  
>>> "extreme rendition," and  since when did rendition mean...?)
>>>
>>> Henry M
>>
>>
>> Maybe the government figured we already had enough crackpots.
>>
>
> Using the term "The Government" as if it were a personality with  
> coherent intentions is paranoid to begin with.  There is no single  
> entity that can be addressed as such.  "The Government" is an  
> multitudinous and protean thing.  "It" changes with the office  
> holders' goals and political capital.  Sometimes it is locked into  
> stalemate with itself, and othertimes it is an unstoppable  
> steamroller.  Trying to validate or incriminate a person or  
> movement based on the (re)actions of "The Government" is falcious  
> in the extreme.  "The Government" is often idiotic and incoherent.


As Will Rogers once said, "Thank heavens we're not getting all the  
government we pay for."

>
> Ghetta
>
> _________________________________________________________________
> Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's  
> FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/
>




More information about the Pynchon-l mailing list