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...high prices as a kind of risk premium. The high prices, in turn, produce enormous profits that irresistibly lure vicious gangs, who are taking over large areas of cities. The gangs employ armies of pushers who spread the very plague the drug laws are supposed to combat. Says Milton Friedman, guru of free-market economists and a Nobel prizewinner: "The harm that is done by drugs is predominantly caused by the fact that they are illegal. You would not have had the crack epidemic if it was legal." Finally, addicts too are irresistibly driven to crime -- prostitution, mugging, burglary...
...Milton provides an excellent example of his theory, Bloom said. "Milton's major desire was to assert his own authority as a poet-prophet, in excess of Moses and Isaiah," said Bloom...
According to Bloom, Milton's "egotistical sublime" style in the poem indicates that "the true God of Paradise Lost is the narrator...
...Satan is the focus of 'Paradise Lost'," he said. "Christ is a poetic disaster." Bloom also described Milton's God as a "catastrophe, an ill-tempered, sanctimonious bore who resembles Ronald Reagan...
...Satan was the true poet in 'Paradise Lost'," Bloom said. "I find in Satan all my own best qualities. Surely Milton intended this, for Satan has all of Milton's best qualities in him. The only difference," Bloom continued, "is that Satan believes in the duality of matter and spirit...