On Mon, 1 May 2000 23:46:42 -0500 "Dace" <edace at flinthills.com> writes:
> Horowitz isn't crazy enough for schizophrenia. Sounds more like
> Paranoid
> Personality Disorder.
I think that he is just angry that his shifting to the right has not brought him the level of respect and influence that he thought would. Thirty years ago, David Horowitz did enjoy a level of respect and influence within leftist circles but little personal economic success. Since then his turning rightist has brought him a measure of economic success but he has hardly become one of the more preeminent figures on the right. The trouble is that he is no James Burnham and there is simply too much competition within the right for him to emerge as a dominant force. And in the meantime he lost the respect of a lot of people who view him as a blatantly oppurtunistic turncoat. All this must be very frustrating to him.
Jim F.
>
>
> >This is sort of amusing.
> >This is David Horowitz complaining about his amazon.com reviews. He
> is
> >displaying some behavioral traits that he demonstrated at a book
> talk in
> >person where he was freaking out at any criticism, calling the
> critic part
> >of the thought police. Strangely, he even defines paranoia in his
> own
> >article here, but that is what he is displaying. One of the traits
> of
> >schizophrenia besides hearing voices is a belief that everything
> including
> >inanimate objects is focusing on you. He is interpreting good
> comments for
> >Chomsky books and bad comments for him as an organized conspiracy
> by the
> >left, and all of this just falls into line with everything else
> he's said
> >about the thought police.
> >
> >
> >
> >>http://www.salon.com/news/col/horo/2000/05/01/amazon/index.html
> >>
> >>
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