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We Have Learned So Well How To Absorb Novelty That Receptivity Itself Has Turned Into A Kind Of Tradition- "the Tradition Of The New." Yesterdays Avant-garde Experiment Is Today's Chic And Tomorrows Cliche.

The Role Of Third Parties Is To Sting Like A Bee, Then Die.

If For Every Error And Every Act Of Incompetence One Can Substitute An Act Of Treason, Many Points Of Fascinating Interpretation Are Open To The Paranoid Imagination.

The Idea Of The Paranoid Style As A Force In Politics Would Have Little Contemporary Relevance Or Historical Value If It Were Applied Only To Men With Profoundly Disturbed Minds. It Is The Use Of Paranoid Modes Of Expression By More Or Less Normal People That Makes The Phenomenon Significant.

One Of The Primary Tests Of The Mood Of A Society At Any Given Time Is Whether Its Comfortable People Tend To Identify, Psychologically, With The Power And Achievements Of The Very Successful Or With The Needs And Sufferings Of The Underprivileged.