Word: schizophrenia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recent announcement by Consolidated Edison, the New York power utility, that it plans to break ground for its controversial Storm King Power project by November has pleased few people outside the company. For Harvard, it is bringing on a slight case of schizophrenia...
...profit from our help and against a nation with whom we had no substantive quarrel. The fact that it killed several million innocent people counted for just about nil, apparently. My Lai does merit special attention, in Michener's view, however, because it "resulted in a kind of moral schizophrenia in the American people...
...asked him, Michener would probably concede that killing a million and a half people in defense of a reactionary dictatorship might result in a kind of moral schizophrenia, whatever that may be, in the American people. But with high-flown meaningless phrases like moral schizophrenia, Michener obscures and trivializes the real issues involved...
...believe, for example, that your society has just committed mass murder--with the best intentions in the world, of course--you may feel obliged to make sure that it doesn't happen again. If, on the other hand, you believe that your society has merely committed moral schizophrenia, there is no reason for you to do anything at all. It may be a good idea to remove yourself from disturbing influences--to withdraw from Indochina, say--but you are certainly not responsible for what happened to the Indochinese. You are not obliged to make reparations payments, for example. You were...
...from precisely such uncomfortable facts that mouthings about moral schizophrenia shield their speakers. The phrase "tragic war in Vietnam," has become a near proverb among Liberals. But "tragic" has no definite meaning; it doesn't refer to Aristotle's rules of drama, or Elizabethan concepts of the rise and fall of statesmen, or anything like that. Insofar as it means anything at all, it means "sad." Accordingly, the phrase is given out in subdued undertones, as though a dead man with a brokenhearted widow were weeping in the next room. It is used as if in reference to an accident...