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Something Happened is an extremely despairing novel, worth reading because it presents an astute observation on the effects of the corporate state upon individuals. It presents an island of the mind overcome by the enemy within oneself, just as Yossarian was threatened by both Americans and Germans in Catch-22. Heller deserves his homecoming after his long journey from Pianosa and he's entitled to recognition...
...this." Then he has to create a third one, to supervise the other two. The a fourth one that's watching everything--he never sleeps, never lets anything go too far. What I'm trying to do is set up again a process of alienation from oneself: "depersonalization," that's another clinical term...
that countless suns shimmer in the Milky Way, each with planets of its own. So that one is, oneself, a paltry individual, if not, to speak quite bluntly, nothing but a little heap of dust...
Unfortunately, that ability does not seem much in evidence in U.S. politics today. Its outstanding example lies in the international field, where Henry Kissinger has so brilliantly practiced it. At its heart are intelligence and the imagination to put oneself fully in another's place. The principle will have to be applied to a divided U.S., and it will take leadership on all levels to show that, if it fails, the result is common disaster...
...Emperor K'ang-hsi again turned to his copy of the I Ching. Nothing he found under the entry for "Retreat" seemed to apply to rulers. "There is no place for rulers to rest," he told his followers in a valedictory address. "Bowing down in service and wearing oneself out," he concluded, "indeed applies to this situation...