Word: hysterias
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America imposes the model of a life in which you are supposed to struggle to the top. Society then imposes collective moral sanctions against anyone who does not accept the hysteria. But if you don't accept the model, you are lost as well as hated. You are not so much ostracized as left to find your own way. There's no-where left to walk if you refuse to climb their ladder...
...national liberation movements in those countries; when they agreed to bomb Hiroshima to terrorize the Russians in Potsdam as well as to defeat the Japanese in Japan, they engendered the cost and deadliness of a prolonged arms race. Far from being victimized and put upon by Cold War hysteria, America had probably done more to create and sustain that hysteria than anyone else...
...GREAT and utterly self-hypnotic was the hysteria that tracing the blame for it could only have occurred in retrospect. Until the extension of the Vietnamese conflict in the late '60's, there did not exist a single, prolonged and potentially divisive use of American overseas military power that might have spurred a serious controversy within the Center about the ramifications of American policy. The early period was one in which the fundamental goals of that policy, as opposed to the tactical wisdom of this or that particular intervention, went largely unquestioned...
...made several visits to Dawson's Field, the desert flat that the hijackers were using as their "revolution airstrip." "It was a fantastic sight to see the three jets shimmering against a backdrop of endless sand," he reported. The Palestinian commandos themselves were in a state of near hysteria. "There was chaos on our arrival. Our photographer was relieved of his film by a Jeep-load of grisly characters bristling with Soviet weapons. Everybody was ordered out of the cars, then everybody back in. A young guerrilla who was acting as the information officer shrieked...
...flora and fauna on this globe. Will we then continue to give evidence of the sanctity with which we regard life by driving other species into extinction? Having read in your magazine that blue whales are being decimated to make butter [July 13]. I feel like laughing to hysteria and beyond...