Olavo de Carvalho

A Satanic Joke

Wednesday June 25, 2008 A Satanic Joke By Olavo de Carvalho Translated from the Portuguese by Matthew Cullinan Hoffman The other day a friend asked me if I had noticed that, within a single generation, forms of conduct described by psychiatry as neurotic or even psychotic have become accepted as normal. Not just normal – I responded – but normative, laudable, and obligatory. The next steps are: (a) marginalize and criminalize every reaction of revulsion, (b) make revulsion psychologically impossible, expelling it from the repertoire of conduct admitted by society. Only unconcealed paranoia could allow, for example, a country where […]
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