Law in Contemporary Society

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IrisAikateriniFrangouFirstEssay 9 - 22 May 2021 - Main.EbenMoglen
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 Perhaps, an explanation for the emergence of this phenomenon of the paranoid style organization can be attempted by regarding its members as having been afflicted by certain circumstantial shifts in society (e.g. economic depression) that in combination with certain well-established conditions (e.g. religious traditions) are conducive to the formulation of such “psychic energies” as Hofstadter puts it (or to a heightening of man’s “neurosis”, to go back to our reductive analogy). The irony of it all of course, is that it is the very multiplicity of social psychology that ensures the survival of the paranoid style embodied in this type of collective personality state. It is only through the existence of the multiplicity of social psychology that the paranoid style organization is even able to coherently (albeit erroneously) express its denial of such multiplicity.
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A very successful rewrite, in my view. I think you've gotten from the material what you need and have presented your synthesis clearly. My preference would still be for a slightly simpler style, but you are now no more difficult than the complexity of your ideas requires.

 

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