"I deplore brutality," he said. "It's not efficient. On the other hand, prolonged mistreatment, short of physical violence, gives rise, when skillfully applied, to anxiety and a special feeling of guilt. A few rules or rather guiding principles are to be borne in mind. The subject must not realize that the mistreatment is a deliberate attack of an anti-human enemy on his personal identity. He must be made to feel that he deserves any treatment he receives because there is something (never specified) horribly wrong with him. The naked need of the control addicts must be decently covered by an arbitrary and intricate bureaucracy so that the subject cannot contact his enemy direct."
Well, what do ya know?--the opponents of Corporate Globalization (note: not just plain globalization)--also happen to organize primarily on the net--align meme-lines, not necessarily modes of action (btw, kudos to whoever thought up the teddy bear catapult idea) . . . One day, the avatars of pro-megalo-corporacy and anti-megalo-corporacy will meet in here and . . . ?
You know, I think in many ways retired New England schoolteacher and current co-proprietor Tom, of Beatty's Used Books down on Third in Seattle, really sez it best: hands outstretched, palms up, shoulders shrugging and eyebrows danglin': "It's their land." Meaning the Palestinians . . .
Fred Lapides recently linked to an article about Jews in New York City protesting the settlements, and I was also pleased to hear that even on NPR (National Pentagon Radio?), reports were surfacing that even in Israel the public support for the settlers was dwindling . . . Dr. Menlo: "Israeli 'settlers' are nothing more than obnoxious fundamentalist assholes, and you can tell them I said so."
Upon entering the White House back in 1980, Ronald Reagan immediately had the solar panels taken off the White House roof that Jimmy Carter had installed there. In 20 years, how far have we come?
"If I have an unusual gift, it is not that l draw particularly better or write particularly better than other people -I've never fooled myself of that. Rather, it's that I remember things other people don't recall: the sounds and feelings and images -the emotional quality of particular moments in childhood."
"I think children who are hugged, and children who are held on laps--nice, yummy laps--will always associate reading with the bodies of their parents.... When you not only hear a treasured story, but also are pressed against the most wonderful person in the world, a connection is made that cannot be severed."
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Dr. Menlo: censored by China, Blogsnob and "The Lefty Directory"
