tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post6540185411011137912..comments2024-03-26T11:33:59.219-06:00Comments on Religion in American History: King Speech Found After Half Century: Proud to be MaladjustedPaul Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13881964303772343114noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post-51576046947705488832010-01-19T07:50:05.853-07:002010-01-19T07:50:05.853-07:00Do you know of anyone who has analyzed these and s...Do you know of anyone who has analyzed these and similar references to psychology by justice activists of the 1950s/60s? I'm working on gay rights movement challenges to disease theories of homosexuality, and the parallels are really intriguing.Heather Whitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06109479643727555633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post-64879497878185978642010-01-18T20:16:23.341-07:002010-01-18T20:16:23.341-07:00Sure. I misremembered the essay's name -- it&#...Sure. I misremembered the essay's name -- it's "A Devout Meditation in Memory of Adolf Eichmann." You can see part of it at Google Books <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=6rWhzqlpE2YC&pg=PA45" rel="nofollow">here</a>. It's interesting how wary people were, already in the '60s, of the depoliticizing potential of therapeutic discourse.Nathan Reinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10492016896547618363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post-5027439566563768602010-01-18T15:39:45.201-07:002010-01-18T15:39:45.201-07:00I had not seen this Merton quote before. Thanks f...I had not seen this Merton quote before. Thanks for posting it.Randallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16755286304057000048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post-48554777207363171282010-01-18T15:25:21.047-07:002010-01-18T15:25:21.047-07:00This reminds me of an essay by Thomas Merton, publ...This reminds me of an essay by Thomas Merton, published in <i>Raids on the Unspeakable</i> (New Directions, 1966), p. 45ff., on the finding that Eichmann was "perfectly sane." I'm not sure when the essay was originally written. It's called "A Devout Memory of Adolf Eichmann." The famous quotation is, "It is the sane ones, the well-adapted ones, who can, without qualms and without nausea, aim the missiles and press the buttons that will initiate the great festival of destruction that they, the sane ones, have prepared.... perhaps we must say that in a society like ours the worst insanity is to be totally without anxiety, totally 'sane.'"Nathan Reinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10492016896547618363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post-54417409905532305272010-01-18T12:56:32.054-07:002010-01-18T12:56:32.054-07:00Thanks, Randall. Excellent post, as usual.Thanks, Randall. Excellent post, as usual.Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13853976805605495345noreply@blogger.com