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“I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like.”

Should Healthy Normal Ideals

Author:George McGovern

“Technically speaking, since our complex societies are highly susceptible to interferences and accidents,they certainly offer ideal opportunities for a prompt disruption of normal activities. These disruptions can, with minimum expense, have considerably destructive consequences. Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems.”

“To one completely committed to this realm of becoming, as are the empiricists, the claim to apprehend verities is a sign of psychopathology. Probably we have here but a highly sophisticated expression of the doctrine that ideals are hallucination and that the only normal, sane person is the healthy extrovert, making instant, instinctive adjustments to the stimuli of the material world.”

Source: Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition

“I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie. My dad was a Methodist minister. I went off to war. I have been married to the same woman forever. I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like.”

Should Has Beens War Boys Forever Grew Dad Healthy Normal Married Grew Up Ideals South My Dad Ministers Prairie Dakota Methodists South Dakota

Author:George McGovern

“A smart soldier wants to know the causes of wars. Also how to end them. After all, war is the normal state of affairs, isn't it? Peace is the name of the ideal we deduce from the fact that there have been interludes between wars.”

Knows Want Has Beens War Ends States Facts Names Causes Normal Smart Ideals Affair Soldier Causes Of War

Author:Jerry Pournelle

“Each of us is sometimes a cretin, a fool, a moron, or a lunatic. A normal person is just a reasonable mix of these components, these four ideal types.”

Persons Sometimes Four Type Fool Normal Ideals Reasonable Components Lunatic Moron Pendulums

Book:Foucault's Pendulum

Source: Foucault's Pendulum