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Arthur B. Cooper, a sophomore, said Sunday that "without the quota there would be between 40 and 50 per cent Jewish students here...
...Cooper is running notices in the Crimson and the Yale Daily News in an effort to find students who feel they were discriminated against by Princeton. He said Sunday that he had received no responses...
What do these celebrated Steigian brain scramblers share with each other, and with most of the rest of the populace? They are conspicuously rational people doing their unlevel best to become less rational. In so doing they are playing out cameo roles in what Dr. David Cooper calls the "Madness Revolution." Cooper is another determined irrationalist, a psychiatrist who frequently envies his patients. Together with British Psychiatrist R.D. Laing, he has composed a sort of "power of positive nonthinking" -a popular ideology of madness. Works like The Politics of Experience (Laing) and The Death of the Family (Cooper) codify...
...Reason" and "logic" have, in fact, become dirty words-death words. They have been replaced by the life words "feeling" and "impulse." Consciousness-the rational-is presumed to be shallow and unconsciousness-the irrational-to be always interesting, often profound and usually true. Cooper's law: "Truth is an unspeakable madness." Sanity is snobbishly looked down upon as uptight and bourgeois. Never has William Blake's Romantic maxim been so believed: "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom...
...Paranoia is a state of heightened awareness," writes one of the contributors to The Radical Therapist, a kind of underground paper for counterculture therapists. Madness "reinvents our selves," Cooper explains, speaking of "mourning for the madness I never had." Norman Brown (Life Against Death) has spoken of the "blessing," the "supernatural powers" that come only with madness. To such post-Freudians, even Freud has, as Leslie Fiedler put it, "come to seem too timid, too puritanical, and above all too rational for the second half of the 20th century...