Rockwell 1966SpeechAtBrownUniversity

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I liked the ruthless logic and unbending dedication to the  truth, whatever it might be, of Schopenhauer. I began to see, for the first time, what I have come to  know as the conceited, 'liberal' mind, which imagines itself capable of conquering nature and setting up  Utopias because it is packed like a suitcase with 'knowledge' and 'culture', but which has no  understanding of basic relationships and no humility whatsoever before the absolutely unknowable.  I read Sinclair Lewis' Arrowsmith, mostly sitting on a stump in the woods and got so absorbed in the  thing, it worried me. It all seemed so real to me and had such an enormous influence on my mind that I  began to wonder about the value of reading such a novel. I came to the conclusion that it is all right to  read purely escapist literature, but that when one wants to delve into and weigh the facts which are life  and death in human affairs, one is mad to permit himself voluntarily to be hypnotized by a novelist,  transported out of his critical faculties and thereby to allow his mind to be powerfully conditioned by  almost real 'experiences' which are nothing less than the invented devices of another human being.  When it is one of the endless parade of 'socially significant' novels which are devoured by our people  by the millions, the reader is helpless to weigh and consciously accept or reject the social conclusions  of the skillful novelist whose conclusions may or may not be correct. If the novelist is not only  incorrect, but is out to promote a particular idea, in spite of the facts, the powerful realism and  emotional impact of the cleverly-drawn pictures he stamps indelibly in our minds while we are under  his spell put us in grave danger of unconsciously and emotionally accepting what we would never in a  million years accept as a naked proposition presented to our cold reasoning faculties.  I read more of these novels -- Grapes of Wrath -- and four or five others, and in all of them I sensed an  attempt to convince me of social ideas, not by reason, but by emotional manipulations while my mind  was hypnotized by my emotions. I didn't fully realize it, but I had discovered left wing and communist propaganda. I hated it, without knowing what it was!

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