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"Another rec:urring aspect of the paranoid style is the speciaI
significance that attaches to the figure of the renegade from
the enemy cause. (...) in the spirital wrestling match
between good and evil which is the paranoid's archetypal
model of the world struggle, the renegade is living proof that
all the conversions are not made by the wrong side. He brings
with him the proof of redemption and victory."
— Dec 01, 2024 08:09AM
significance that attaches to the figure of the renegade from
the enemy cause. (...) in the spirital wrestling match
between good and evil which is the paranoid's archetypal
model of the world struggle, the renegade is living proof that
all the conversions are not made by the wrong side. He brings
with him the proof of redemption and victory."
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"Yet in his very zeal for freedom he couriousIy assumed many of the charecteristics of the imagined enemy. (...) by censuring the subversive for alleged licentiousness, he engages in sensual fantasies (...)"
— Dec 01, 2024 08:04AM
hihihoho
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"This enemy seems to be on many counts a projection of the self: both the ideal and the unacceptable aspects of the self are attributed to him. A fundamental paradox of the paranoid style is the imitation of the enemy. The enemy, for example, may be the cosmopolitan intellectual, but the paranoid will outdo him in the apparatus of scholarship, even of pedantry."
— Dec 01, 2024 07:59AM
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"History [according to the paranoid style] is a conspiracy. Set in motion by demonic forces of almost trancendent power, and what is felt to be needed to defeat it is not the usual methods of political give-and-take, but an all-out crusade."
— Dec 01, 2024 07:53AM
hihihoho
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"(...)the real mystery for one who reads the primary works of paranoid scholarship, is not how the United States has been brought to its present dangerous position, but how it has managed to survive at all."
— Dec 01, 2024 07:50AM
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"(..) there would be a party in the United States [wielding to catholic immigrants] (...) that would 'sell their country into an everlasting bondage.' Even so much as a tenth of the voting population, 'condensed and wielded by the Catholic powers of Europe, might decide our elections, perplex our policy, inflame and divide the nation, break the bond of our union, and throw down our free institutions.'"
— Dec 01, 2024 07:50AM
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"These [18th century anti-Illuminism] writers illustrate the central preconception of the paranoid styIe-the existence of a vast, insidious, preternaturally effective international conspiratorial network designed to perpretrate acts of the most fiendish character."
— Dec 01, 2024 07:49AM
