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Titolo: M'I.5'Persecu tion , Be rnard Lev in expres ses h is views

to. cheer.
At. the time this article was written I had believed for some time that
columnists in the Times and other journalists had been making references. to
my. situation. Nothing unusual about this you may think, plenty of people
have. the same sort of ideas and obviously the papers aren't writing about
them,. so why should my beliefs not be as false as those of others?
What makes this article so extraordinary is. that three or four days
immediately preceding. its publication, I had a meeting with a friend,
during the course of which we discussed the media persecution, and. in
particular that by Times columnists. It seemed to me,. reading the article
by Levin in Saturday’s paper, that he. was describing in some detail his
"artist’s impression" of that meeting. Most telling are the. final
sentences,. when he writes, "The madman bursts into tears, and swears it is
all true. And it is." Although I did not "burst into tears" (he. seems to be
using a. bit of poetic licence and exaggerating) I did try hard to convince
my friend that. it was all true; and I am able to concur with Mr Levin,
because,. of course, it is.
At the beginning of the piece Levin reveals. a fear of being attacked by the
"irrational" subject of his story, saying "I. have no reason to believe that
he. is violent, but he should certainly be approached with caution". This
goes back to. the xenophobic propaganda of "defence" against a "threat"
which was seen at the very beginning of the harassment. The. impression of a
"madman running loose" who needs to be controlled through an. agency which
assigns to itself the mantle of the "police". is also one which had been
expressed. elsewhere.
In. the final paragraph of this extract, his reference to Everyman’s Library
as having "died a lingering and shameful death a decade. or so ago" shows
clearly what sort of. conclusion they wish to their campaign. They want a
permanent solution, and as they are prevented from achieving. that solution
directly, they waste significant. resources on methods which have been
repeatedly shown to be ineffective for such. a purpose.
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itself since it makes
itself the centre of everything; it is inconvenient to others since it would
enslave them; for each Self is the enemy, and would like to be the tyrant of
all others. You take away its inconvenience, but not its injustice, and so
you do not render it lovable to those who hate injustice; you render it
lovable only to the unjust, who do not any longer find in it an enemy. And
thus you remain unjust and can please only the unjust.
456. It is a perverted judgement that makes every one place himself above
the rest of the world, and prefer his own good, and the continuance of his
own good fortune and life, to that of the rest of the world!
457. Each one is all in all to himself; for he being dead, all is dead to
him. Hence it comes that each believes himself to be all in all to
everybody. We must not judge of nature by ourselves, but by it.
458. "All that is in the world is the lust of the flesh, or the lust of the
eyes, or the pride of life; libido sentiendi, libido sciendi, libido
dominandi."[73] Wretched is the cursed land which these three rivers of fire
enflame rather than water! Happy they who, on these rivers, are not
overwhelmed nor carried away, but are immovably fixed, not standing but
seated on a low and secure base, whence they do not rise before the light,
but, having rested in peace, stretch out their hands to Him, who must lift
them up, and make them stand upright and firm in the porches of the holy
Jerusalem! There pride can no longer assail them nor cast