THE FREEMAN ARTICLE TITLED "GOVERNMENT BY THE INSANE"

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• Publication Date: March 23, 1953

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� -COMn:1Mi1S kaders ore suffer:71; frorr. a fo-rm of
ac(un: in-sanity. Only by recogni:irg� this fact
and s,..t.dying the methods of their mcdaess can we
!cant i..ow to cope with thcm and their adheres:4.s.
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1) ,,WSov Cornmunists, the hard wre of the Nonn
It Korean prisoners, stood with their arms lc,e_ked,
stvaying front side to side. They -..iiipped their
mindrs with r.iusic bcirrowrid tn,e :.engte and
thc church. "Their eyes were glared, �-heiy tk ere a o
wrought up, 3o linenotized by 01-fir r)wn singtug."
said the American otfcer who saw it. Priscr.ers -ri
oth.er conipt,un-,is on Pongam :stand J.3ined in. The
horde, drunk althou:71: no man had tssted liqu�
�Aas 02 the verge of smashir.g through the fent' .
:nat con:tiled it. The small furce uf guare.
reached, would have 'oeed trampled upon it r..1
tI) f,:ezes. Orders to evsse
were iviiored. Thc tieards. mainly Korean, the.- -
selves. fired. The v.-oeuded were lifted up by th, r
conirades, and the riot continued uni.it nearly
hs.tl been shot, two thirds of the: fe.:ally.
Tlien. within th hour. in the same drunk
they incited up trieir eead and wounded,
ale!. e :riled them awaii. Like the drunk, too, they
after.vards tore a:tragedy into those who had no:
wanted to join, or who had nut entered ie.to :he
spirit of this crazed spree. Several horribly muti-
lated bodies, were handed out.
There have always been rit�.-.s aito demonstra' ,�its
that get out of hand, but this t�isn't li-e an, of
therse. There was something eraoily strenint.nec
ubviit it, singuLtrly modern and yet prirnitite
the first man. There had been no spontaneity
these new tribul�chiefs were moved by an in:, (.bi�
part) disciplitte. The effect on the uninfornit.: is
rnorale-shattcring.
There was that y.ittng Arneri.-an %oldie!' 1 ?net
in who hid been shot close b. it:3 hea�'
Korc... %awe life had been saved the mirael.�
of our wartime surgery. llis bititation had :wen
attacked by what the Shintoist Javanese call a
banzai charge and the Communist Chinese a human
wave. "Children rose up in front Of me," this youth
explained. "Some couldn't have been more than
twelve or 1o:it-teen. You hesitated using your bayo-
net on kids; somehow you couldn't. By the time
you foi.ind you lied to, you were dead�or like MC,
had your chest stashed open." Ile, too, d-e--scribc-d
the glazed eyes of the charging, horde. eyes that
seemed to pop out of their hcads. The only expla-
nation he could figure out was that these Chinese
had h,-.-en drugged. "We found a pot of heroin in
one captured lent." he said.
rh, pot of ci,4�,:2 was probably for the medics.
The mental condition he s;at'se of had been indurett
by the m�nge of fake evangelism and quack p!�.-
chiatry that passes for education under Coramu-
nkro--the regular, official indoctrination. better
described as brainwashing.
'Fixatious' and 0.1�--ieei0u8
Who are these people? We know the posts they
fill, but we live in such a different environment
that we can't grasp the meaning of their perform-
ance. Our customary reactimn has teen bewilder-
ment. Yet there are person- among us who do not
rind such phenomena, th" glazed and popping eyes.
the fixations and obsessions, extraordinary. They
conic across it in their daily work. They are our
psychiatrists and alienists. Psychiatrists see it ii'.
their studio.i. alienist s in their insane asylums.
What is extraordinary is ne.t this mental cdndition.
but tr.e dlL.et .te imluct..)n and c%ploitati�-.n of it
for political purposes. .1 recent, much put;;;cized
case in American society can perhaps help us a
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moo 0.0 com;�rehred thie s it ::atien--the ceee, namely
of peyerd �ehe dee:elated for a
fcw leee ee.o. Ti;i3 man wits no Coe . munint
or Neet; a etudent type. fruetrated,
V:Orf.C,I into an 6i:7:et. et Co-
lumbia UniveesitY a nd em;�tied ht. p�tel into a
girl whom he had n�:� Cr beer. l'oakes had
written a Leo% entitled, "Hew to Live Feeever." In
which he tried te show how eit.-ctronica cculd ex-
tend life to 500 years. Fie cueid r.ever get it pub-
lished. which�-e.roved to hern that American scien-
tists were reeetionary. Tr.:., was eehile drove him
to murder. Only in this WAY eould he arouse enough
interest to bring his rnessege to the people. Peakes
did not kr.ow but th,re are ways and places nowa-
days frq the unsteille and :he mentally unbalanced
to satisfy their urg,ings and in:late their egos.
Peakes went ateeut it in the eid�fashioeezi way, and
that is why he is now incarcerated in an asylern
for the insar.- With very linle variation in tYln
and his:ory. e veculd f into the ueeide�dewn so-
ciety of Ho Chi-minh's Vice Min Peepie's Demo-
cretie er Mao Tse-tung's New Democ-
racy, or in So.:et Po.seia itself. Hie peculiar tal-
ents would tee perfeette normal in such an environ-
ment.
Persons Peeakese�and Hitler�may have sane.
even euperier faceit.es in some field, yet suffer
from a deleeieti uthe- e They are peesteeeed by
an UU-00:13*-!:11:::g : hey are positive that
they are being untairly :eeseettei, and that they
have the to p-aish t� Their ee.ap.e is
into fanaticism.
Fetneties ueeti roan: �.me.le yreunds, end were
rarely a dange: The wore teeatae.eriginaily fan..
ticus, meant s,:tieeee poseessed by a demeni; , C, rt:
ligivus fetVt,r. When such pe,,,pie Les:an:et vicieet.
".;.ttat t aae neelei if, CLIC
eer ;4 the:: time. They ..cere stuffed int..: cages.
iropped into dungeons, or de-ezpitated. Wher.ever
eossible they were :Cr;. i, beenu..e they weer
6,44e.tsed to be the meuieme througn diviti.ty
;.rtiVIdIng tie�
ciphering. tuch were the orecies De;phi . teda
men in those e.ry days did not have set:I-le:en: ex-
perience to diet.riguish between the man who :eat
mad, and :he deep. spiritual thinker. Selealers
not know eeough ah itt natural pheneener.a to eepa-
rate superstitiet: frerr, foe:. It is a field in we.icht
We are tragically deficient even today.
Religious Oseetutteis
The same insane attitudes. reetognized such in
olden days, have reappsered rr.oder:
what we cal: ideolegiset, V. reteize by ..........it the
new political ideolettiet hair religion. overtones.
but we still shy toaely from the reitise�ia. meet; of
recognizing that they have beeunte ae� it re-
ligion. 04 reeeetly I hearti .n Ateet.cen
sionary, v.:no ler yearA h;t3 J ene ht,e,
refer to Communi;:m wholly in theological term.,
za"ie � it Mereiat Cheietianity, thie
a new, reformed relieion, like the Buildhient th.it
%vas the outgrowth of Hintluiern, or the Chrieelen
faith that was derived from Judaiem. Yet he failed
to comprehend the connection bet..eeen this end
what Robert T. Ilryen, Shanghai�born American,
caught a brief ickling of when he concluded his
recent series of Saturday Evening Pod articles
about his arrest onci brainweshing with the obser-
vation: "The insane asylum he-3 broken open and
madmen are in the streets."
In Mein Kcinpf Hitler told how he strove to give
Nazi fanaticism "the forni of faith," 30 as to make
it. like faith, "able :n move mountains." The Retie
do the same. Agiiin and ngain, at some Communist
gath,?rinz, I Lave been struck by the recourse to
toe Protestant order of service; even the music is
.tientical, with only the words changed.
Hitler boasted rriat he and his party members
were fanatics. Yet though we re;arded him as evil,
ae rensidered hint nonetheless sane. But on the
final afterndon of his life, when sharing a dismal.
,ubterraneen banker with his strange love, Eva
Braun, the Fuehrer ceuld no longer have doubted
the imminent, tete.' collapse of his Nr.:ti state. If at
:hat n,ornerit 11.:le: could have placed his hands on
� super-hydree�en bomb whese chain reaction wouid.
have destroyed, the world, he would have used it.
He would have dene so knowing that cace shat-
tered, nothieg could ever collect the pieces out of
-pace and put them together again. For he would
'lave sir.ce:ely felt that there was no reeint in living
n WithOt:T. Nazism, that he mast spare the
-art:, this ageny. The veins of hi.s fervid brain
conid nearly have burst with the Wageerian pride
4 ;..01.eving such a sacrificial ending to what other-
v�uulei visualize. eniy a iu.fnuitv disorder
end �-itility.
T� � was insanity, of course, a delusion of the
nos� ; ronourxed sort. Hitler was a crazy man.
H.tter le dead, thcugn sorne minds have not beer,
c�eartst Feet �-�;��� ��� left a neat of
1;: tie Stal'uests. all thoroughly impregeated wi:n
convict :..:t .that Communism is mankind's In-
c, ;able dee::.r.y. world without Communiern
1..uld seem eemitiete refutation cf : the "law.
i." nati.re :hat they call dialectiezi materialism.
The� logk- in ii hich Co--unite tnyatnesm i.
-apped makes. it ap;.--ar supericialiy a new feern
acienee. at practical as the meltiplication ato
T: ;a keep.. the. true nature of the Red gospel ned�
den front the unit:I:lisle. What is exhibited to tete
w rid is a logical and reasonable person. w-ho a;.
p-ars a good celeeen and kindly friend. Yet
sane aselutne are tea of nladreen who ere perfecti�
� at. self�p..-eseesed. and even imnreesive in the:,
aepearance. Sadista, rapists, are often the. A cont-
rite" trnit. t�-e. of those suffering from hrillucins
th.ns, is the iegie of what they say or dot they are
eeen;;Ietely cc:I.:to:IPA-lc, once you ae.:ept the basic
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preini(e, the to...th which try are olhie..srd,
for they live in a dr,-.1m wurld��thy ore
or Joan of .ArC, case be.
Dostocvsk'um Eestacy
We svould c tonipting fate, indetsd. if we were
to (cr granted :hat Stalin's h.ir,hly fanaticized
5ucCe3s3rs Wt.o.:1�I nut be dra..vn to the
extrs 17.�'er if confronted with the sar.se
prospect Nf. izievitable, total defeat. Already (n-
rnunisrn has been swcpt to the szrne rand anti-
Semitisrn as Nazism. Shattering s large seetion of
the earth, or the entire planet, could very well ap-
pear to sut-h o' -".d minds as a r)ostrievskian
erstacy ivvrth a w:;0!..: (.;
This is a rr.:udr.ess `'," can clinically develop ...ut
of the. obsessior.s and the fixations of Mao Tse-ag
and Li Li-san ani t.eir own Win. .m
Z. Foster, and the other Red em.rpraistS. It is s,,sy
Mao and his cohorts. although Ct.'^r:3e. never gt.e-e
a second thought to the ir.teret ef China or ..ne
Chinei,e people 7---nen they threw their ;-..rrnies aer--ss
the- F:orean frcaticr, against the troops of -.he
United Nations, on orders from the Iiretr.lin.
In the past there have heen rnsny madmen in -he
seats of the rni;,--nty. Tsarist I:L.:4-1:a had its Ivan the
Territ,:e; Jap.in's r�-vent Emperor Taisho :n-
/Wile. Madmen anicr.e: s:1-,veri.,:itne were easily
teetable. The wrought was usu:.:y
cireuraszribeci by nal:anal tstrclers sr.ci the i"-se
controLi exerc.sed t:arly h.s�uric pt:ricd.s. Pr-Th
arrang,e2-.ents exist in protocol for regen�-s tact:�i� iy��
to assume in iiuch zentir;tencie.s.
The nien:al cases that ec.:1, ern us now are t f-
ferer.t, fur tis�-�y lack the disp,:n:�ed :...-tionsby wi.� -h
we have come to identify the crazy. If a nian
glazs r with a carving knife, any ii
can see that he is mad. If he insists he i3 the 4-
slab cc.rna ti � sirrptc-ton k: T1 w It� :t
CetZr vi Lict cf:tt,.:1 L.
The truly dsr.gerotts raadmen of the mid-twen-
tieth century. n have man:Aged to fe-II t.:3 ant!
gain un:srececiented power, are net such
rases. "4�:.;,ir eXccs!-,:s are not the spasmo-iic. tin
predict:ti-le cruelties in:posed on th,..se
rvaoh. With the same eorirr,s adherence to a
strained Irgulity that ch:aracter:7e-s tc....-ditnrisn re
giraes. these r.nadmen go throurn all the rnoti...ns
sanity. They put whole populatior.s under
and sinister pressures to make them act with tr.e
same r.tadneas as themselves.
This is a cunCcption grotesqut: that w is:At
can't bring ourselves to 1....dieve it. Ever. when
ftscts start Ls in the cl�ne our mindi, be-
cause normal, dcsient 1--ogle refuse to azlitsit suca
extrernea of shnortni.lOy. We din': -.vat.: t.j..i:nit,
too, that whole peo;�lt.t. c,,:ne. of oil*
greatest scholars, have been so e.s..sily hood�vinkro
A SirciiL of Matliicss�
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IVe refer ti the fa,dnt and Csnimuni.tt
but nnt to the derrus:ratic ideology, thus. inferrin,i
that there in a difference. The cliference is that a
streak of insanity is ittthrhed to every ideoloitY.
Any "true Leliever" in C.-,----unis.rn fiiscism, hi
this streak of madness in him. Ezra Pound, vi hr
obtuse, rsolyglet poetry rt.zeived universal plaudlt!..
hits to-en cor-^-i'ted to a Waahinrtor: Men-
tal institution. His capacity as a pt,et. was not in
question, any more than Van Gogh's genius 135 an
artist was disproven when he went into ar. asylum.
Where, then, can we draw the line berween the
fanatic and the madman? What is obvious is that
our preser.t distinctions include many of the latter
in the category of the termer. We know that man
is an ambivalent animal. He can have a blind sp.::
in. one part of his mind. This explains such un-
happy cases as that of France's Jeliet-Curie; it ex-
plains Einstein's consister.t blundering in politics;
it certainly Explains Chaplin.
:Between those persons who totally lack so.ciarre-
-sponsibility, :such is hermits, croszks. and madmen.
and those v�-hn have been mentally derangc-d by an
excessive sense of their resp4)nsibility, the
cranks and political ssins, th-re is a wide. rnr.2,-e -
of political interest, starting with the man wno is
self-2h about his social re.sponsibilities, who
"doesn't give a ciarnn,- ranging, to the person who
takes his politics with intense serio::.S7Ielis, a zealot
or a fanatic according to tne degree of -intensity,
the sense of r.iissier.. he brings into politics.
We have .no difticulv in understanding the en-
thusiast and even the. zealot. Only when we eilter
the field of the far.atieis do we eri.1-is the bord-ir .r.:o
iine.rplored territory. Fanatics refuse to be budged
from their concentration on some pan.-s�-ea er pet
hate, and the on :lie lit�rizon svhcre trey f
!neir attention is their whole svorld. They can not
Os: deterred by flartery or bribery, but
use both, juttging morality by whether it advances
or ietards tneir pcAsticai objec-tive.
Dividing Line
Where we have erred is in our understanding
of when fanatieiitin ends L:id insanity hegins. We
have regarded too ninny of the uzusan na mere
fanatics. The dividing line ts_stween fanatic:sm and
insanity should be hift,41. A large prcr,:.rtion of
:nose whom we have tikun ccnsidurmn natics are
actually insane in a ciinical tense. They are mad-
men, sufferir.-; from d�qusion or fixnt:on, with
resultant perst-:ution complex. We have beer. too
tolerP.nt. The hard core of Cc.,r,-.nsunisra, tlucros. who
have hven s..recned througn al: the ratifies:it and
1:-trityaila of their party, until no feelinrs rent:.in
but a desperate clinging to the party, is a
no:-..lenen in our society, the o.-cu!.iiitional hs.r.ard of
our overtense twentieth century; it is an ideologi-
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111;3 f,..rt in too gio.ietic 1,:r it of u toaccept,
--Ury the fr.�.: have tryle,k-
rathr:i� tr) OC wr,t,
hollers rci if they were s:-ne prople, who respond
to normal reactions tli.nk normany. Alt we
schiey.: Ly Iflclo-ve i5 to KO round and
round in eircles. If we in � ..'t 011 the pretense., we
should At /east proctof one does in humoring a
dangerous rm�of.:TLari, (1"..!:7.:-3,..':3C we 11:1VC only our-
ielves to Llarne for the consequer.ce.s.
Crazy have le -en thle to maneuver them-
telve.4 into vlsizior.s catraordinary ;sower with-
out their madness heing recognized, because we
have not yet dared, iu siibtie reaches of ideol-
ogy, to �listinguish levaeen the mere fanatic and
the acta-..; madman. V.'e cal; both fanatics, and we
regard the fnr.atic nsane.
The appalling faet i. that many millions of sane
people have marched ta the polls in our so-c.stlect
practieal age, and voted matirnen into �trice and
kept them there. On such nn.ivetr..... :rave :he �Hitlers
and the Staiir.a built thrir empires, tind innurner-
-abie nr.ul r.ot very dilrett from Pcakt-3 have
usurped inrluer.tial joh3. Under them, insanity has
become an adjunct of tintiontd policy. .7%.3(!mcr: hold
the moat intportar.t pos.....; wherever the dictatorship
principle has devric;.vd into the rriateri:.iistic mys-
ticism of tot:I.:At:Irian philosophy. Such totalitarihrt-
ism presup7es.:-3 inf:tilibie authority, which cat:
not be held respor.sible to mar. or Cod. This is
sheer irrespensibilizy, the distinguishing mark of
the mad. Norir.ai proeedures are !;tile io desling
with such a system.
The .;u111Y.lity of the averave man is resporosible
for ti.e comparetive ease :vith which these people
Have scitr3I ;.-ower. Until c:,:r average eitiLen is put
on his .gt:nrcl,.the world wl:1 conti�tie slidir.g, as if
dovar. the 1.),-msd:ly poth. The pre3-
lige that Cornmunism wiei..13 in the Soviet ila
virtue of its power and unrestricted propagai.d.:
confuses the normal, sane individual into looking
arour.d hint and wondering whether ne isn't out of
t.ine with the times. Ile :s made t-.1 :eel abnormal.
Under this pressure, numners of people voluntarily
exchange their sanity for insanity. Fur those who
hesitate, there are the Lrainwashing establishments
where the insane treat the sane. Mare and zr...re
niadmen�clinically mad�have constantly to be
created, and a whole technique has been evolved to
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Ps) ril'witric Nrrrahary
Because of the existence of Communist part ���
otoide the Red le-it. there are te..::-...in�ar,e
walking the strter.1 t�-day In any ft cc oatintry ���
are io,d,ed in all its insane amyh.:mi. There is
greater proLien: facing us tad ny �s- 'n : rp thos -
d,7r.ente,d pro;.,:e out of ;;:at,iic life. tt, ditTerent:3te
between the pizsier.ate enthusiast and the rnenta..)
tin:mit:need far.atid. Oarp4ychologists and pAyce...a
tr.t..s have no greater responsibility than to
t,k-3te this entire :leld ef voliti;�3i anu
idrocai r:_!ness. Above all. the r
� oe restricted to medics! or r.r.
Ti-is subje3:it n....at Or ci..r.hed tot the paolic.
Society nowadays has to rhon3e r: only twtwreen
!verso:is quatifaLtions hu!
tiks t.i detect those suffering from del.:sions. to put
the where they can not harm others. Honest
and true intellectuals. oecause their prss-
t.ge. 'Lave a particular responsibility :o help guar
ra:-ople of the world, as well as themselves.
� th�e eir.nryo liltiers, Sta.::., and Ilaos 3ch
are � itlitrating position: of irr.;.-ort,nce in mar.
lands
We c.a. n take a cue here from the experience of
the Northwestern L'r.iversity pro:ess:.rs w.ho :rien
to cot hozic into Pe;.?:.-;!.:z;' head. Or.e of them eX
pre-s�ei the- :nturnor. who tr-;
argt.o. with such poople when he "Peakes � :7--
f.:y Jr�ive us mad. he was a crac?pot." I'eakEs
"coui�la't be pinno.1 down." said th:-se :who cf.:
�vith olm. "You can't do business with Hitler." 1.....-
-arne & maxim in the Free You can't cle:.�. �
��tti: the lenders. e�.:11er--only
���� tl: excesses caused by their mental unbalat.c,.
raorncra, some crazy leader
-ar� the dangcreun n.-r toys
totnlltarian world to get hold of
�tea:::: and deceit. We are Cr..,nin_..atts.:1 w:lh an
� insanity; only by re.cozaizir.r. this, an-I ad-
v:
Chr.:1:::: to .save our country, the captive :It:ions,
and the world.
he world paid a stupendous price for failoreta
in-o.r.ity. We are now paying
� price fur otio�r failures; the eventuni zest
o be annihilation.
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