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...skeptical of human solutions, he nevertheless deludes himself that he can heal the modern soul with an invention which he calls the lapsometer. Like a latter-day Descartes focusing on the pineal gland as seat of the human soul, More constructs a machine that isolates and measures areas of psychic imbalance in the brain...
...within which the warrior must eke out a petty and sadistic existence profiteering promotions, medals, and love-making. Wry but bitter, Sloan's hero constantly visits the base's dentist while worrying about continual gonorrhea, and enjoys pissing into the flak around his helicopter gunship. Amid the war's psychic viciousness the hero maintains his uneasy sanity by means of his crudely cynical opportunism and angry mischief...
...this point, those whose ages take them beyond the youth culture but have been radicalized by the vision of the new society have been almost exclusively middle class-those with the leisure time, and money and psychic security that allows them to be free-free to act. free to care, free to love. The vision of Mayday, however, says very little to those-and most of America is among "those" -who do not have those freedoms...
...Love," the pamphlet claims, is notan unselfish emotion but a response to the challenge and "psychic masochism" of the love-power relationship. Winning a girl is "like conquering Everest or reaching the moon," the pamphlet explains. "Why do you suppose the moon-that big bubble in the sky-has such a special significance to 'lovers' anyway...
Different kinds of experience in response to different settings are not so easily explained physiologically, but Grinspoon is a psychiatrist and he offers an intriguing analysis of the psychological variants involved in dope taking. Much of the scare literature charges that marihuana causes psychoses, psychic dependence, or "personality deterioration." Grinspoon refutes these charges, and even suggests that the psychological problem may belong to the anti-dope crowd, attributing the zeal for prohibition to "displacement" and anxiety symptoms common to a stressful society...