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...tell you the wrong reasons for it and propose another model, which in turn proves equally unworkable. This is as true of nutty little proposals by discontented geniuses--like the idea of communalist, rural "pantisocracy" put forward by Shelley, Coleridge and others in their youth--as it is of paranoid, pseudo-collectivist systems that take over whole societies and make huge contributions to the sum of human misery, like Stalinism. We flawed animals can be somewhat improved, spottily and with difficulty; but we cannot be perfected, which is what the Utopian project, in its various forms, is all about...
...Light Prince and the Dark Prince. There they were again, under the studio lights of the famous first debate - graceful Jack, loverboy and martyr; and eye-flicking Tricky, unshaven paranoid with sweat on his upper lip. The scene has persisted in the mind like a cave drawing, a cartoon from prehistory...
After all there have been no cases of Ebola in the U.S. and the host organism is suspected to be indigenous to Africa. But better safe than sorry--so get those flu shots and get paranoid...
...mailbox. Sometimes I was given toys with company logos. And everywhere I went on campus, posters promising a wonderful I-banking/consulting life lined the stairwells, covered the entrances to the dining halls and glared at me from every lamppost and tape-able surface imaginable. Maybe I'm just paranoid, but these messages left little room in my mind for misinterpretation: Forget art. I should bank or consult. But I'm stubborn, and so, naively, I ignored the signs thinking that new ones would inevitably appear guiding me along my dream-path to a sun-filled studio. I patiently waited...
...absence of a clear legal precedent on how to treat refugees with mental disabilities, immigration judges are adopting an ad hoc approach. On Sept. 21, a judge in York, Pa., granted the "withholding of removal" to a Chinese paranoid schizophrenic whose circumstances echo De Santiago's. He lost his residency as a result of a felony conviction. The judge found it likely that the 42-year-old man would suffer persecution in China, which advocates sterilization for the mentally ill, and agreed that the man had proved his membership in a "particular social group." A California judge issued a similar...