lxx INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION |
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Dealing with those tragic and painful collapses in civilizations, and eventually passing to another spasm of civilization, what interests us most in considering the problems of sanity, is the newest, psychopatho-logical methods of destroying sanity, not merely the organized orgies of murder, rape, arson, looting, drugging, and destruction under different dictators, mikados, etc.
I mention the 'mikado' especially here as a tragic human example of the effect of
![]() This applies to many other 'rulers', who seldom know what is going on extensionally because they rely on the use of
![]() Imagine a British empire tolerating so long a Chamberlain in the government, or the endless petty, befuddling, deluding, etc., bickerings of political partisanship, which are good enough to wreck any system of 'democracy' (in practice another
![]() It seems, however, there is at least one point the totalitarian and 'democratic' politicians have in common, best expressed by Kipling:
"Ow the loot! Bloomin' loot! That's the thing to make the boys git up an' shoot t It's the same with dogs an' men, If you'd make 'em come again Clap 'em forward with a Loo! loo! Lulu! Loot 1 Whoopee! Tear 'im, puppy! Loo! loo! Lulu I Loot! loot! loot!' |
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