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So you hate the book because of the way someone interpreted it?

• PaulHoule 4mo ago
  I think that misinterpretation is endemic. Like the imagery in Pink Floyd's the Wall is about a psychotic break, not about what life is like. Those teenage girls aren't the only one, but just memorable to me because one of them talked passionately about it before she dropped out of an acting class in which we are preparing a scene. You can see the pathology in a lot of discussions about it and it's connected with a fascination with "total institutions" that you see in readings and misreadings of Goffman, Foucault, etc. Since One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest colonized the public imagination we lost our safe spaces for schizophrenics so now you can't go downtown without being bit by one their pitbulls -- and Amazon, Uber, Doordash and the like that benefit from the annihilation of community are laughing all the the bank. If you're in Gaza or some place like that your life is not like life in a concentration camp, full stop.