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Entry: Firing Foxman Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/firing_foxman#3480 Post contents: @Jerry Meng You talk about paranoia as if it was under the rule of reason, while it is a most unreasoning passion. No one chooses to be paranoid. It is merely endured by those whose minds are bent by it, and cannot think straight (the sad part about mental illness is that, unlike physical illness, the suffered does not know that he is sick). The terrible thing is that paranoia, unreasoning as it is was given terrible validation. In fact one of the characteristics of the period beofre and during World War II was that THE LUNATICS TURNED OUT TO BE RIGHT, AND THAT SENSIBLE PEOPLE DID NOT KNOW WHAT WAS GOING ON. Churchill was a crank that no one listened to, no one paid attention to De Gaulle's theories which were seen as too untested. And so on. As for the Holocaust, like it or not, it was a highly traumatic event which was designed to feed the mother of all paranoias. And if you think that it has been a long while, and that we are in American, why not ask Irish Americans if they feel more kindly disposed towards the English and Oliver Cromwell, and about the potato famine. That was further back, I understand . Sent at: 2008 05 15