From Doubt 28 (1950), pages 25-6:
“Perpetual Peace Plan (continued)” 25-6:”For a long time now, not even a luscious sex murder or a rip-snorting train wreck--not even the opening of the baseball season--has been permitted to crowd ‘REDS’ out of the front-page headlines, day after day after day. Phoney [sic] trials in various courts, spurious inquiries by dummy Committees, all dealing with rigged evidence delivered in double-talk, have been conducted for no other purpose than to create this false ‘news.’ Nobody connected with these turkey melodramas-neither their authors, producers, principals, prisoners, witnesses or judges--has cared how any of their follies ended. As long as the ‘REDS’ are kept in the headlines, it does not matter who lied first, second or third. The people who read the papers have had their daily does of dope.
“The Russian press calls this ‘warmongering,’ and thinks that this is the old razzle-dazzle build up for World Fraud III. Hardly anybody believes the tripe as printed, but lots and lots of people who have been put through these same hoops before think they recognize the signs of impending hostilities. Many are afraid. Mothers are organizing, preachers are decrying the manufacture of some bogey called an “H-bomb,” individuals are buying tiny plots of ground away fro the cities--a place to run when the bombing starts--and so on.
“Oddly, perhaps, YS does not share these fears or expectancies. Not notably successful as a seer, YS predicts that no nam living will see another so-called ‘war’ of any proportions. That was the last one, It’s all over--and we can relax. What’s more, this is understood (and agreed to) as fully by the top brass////////////26///////////// in Moscow as by the O.S.S. in Washington. The rest of us are at the bodily disposal of the boys in the two saddles, and the only way to avoid their rivalry for mental supremacy, as well as physical, is through Forteanism.
“This guess is based upon the following logic, which can be verified only be events, inasmuch as nobody has developed a means to document a wink . . . Modern technology has made nationalism completely obsolete, but the nationalists will cling to their sinecures as long as possible. Ideologically the world is already divided into two blocs, and no fewer than two is possible. This is not stated dogmatically, but by way of definition. How else to define any idea save by contrast to what it is not?
“Now, there are they, and here we are: neither ‘side’ can win, and both ‘sides’ know it, so that issue will never be tested, but ordinary slobs--in the Soviets as well as in the States--are condemned to live from now on in an atmosphere of Hissing--Chandlers, Titoring-Mindzentys and mutual recriminations--perpetually. The only way to escape is via Forteanism."
“Perpetual Peace Plan (continued)” 25-6:”For a long time now, not even a luscious sex murder or a rip-snorting train wreck--not even the opening of the baseball season--has been permitted to crowd ‘REDS’ out of the front-page headlines, day after day after day. Phoney [sic] trials in various courts, spurious inquiries by dummy Committees, all dealing with rigged evidence delivered in double-talk, have been conducted for no other purpose than to create this false ‘news.’ Nobody connected with these turkey melodramas-neither their authors, producers, principals, prisoners, witnesses or judges--has cared how any of their follies ended. As long as the ‘REDS’ are kept in the headlines, it does not matter who lied first, second or third. The people who read the papers have had their daily does of dope.
“The Russian press calls this ‘warmongering,’ and thinks that this is the old razzle-dazzle build up for World Fraud III. Hardly anybody believes the tripe as printed, but lots and lots of people who have been put through these same hoops before think they recognize the signs of impending hostilities. Many are afraid. Mothers are organizing, preachers are decrying the manufacture of some bogey called an “H-bomb,” individuals are buying tiny plots of ground away fro the cities--a place to run when the bombing starts--and so on.
“Oddly, perhaps, YS does not share these fears or expectancies. Not notably successful as a seer, YS predicts that no nam living will see another so-called ‘war’ of any proportions. That was the last one, It’s all over--and we can relax. What’s more, this is understood (and agreed to) as fully by the top brass////////////26///////////// in Moscow as by the O.S.S. in Washington. The rest of us are at the bodily disposal of the boys in the two saddles, and the only way to avoid their rivalry for mental supremacy, as well as physical, is through Forteanism.
“This guess is based upon the following logic, which can be verified only be events, inasmuch as nobody has developed a means to document a wink . . . Modern technology has made nationalism completely obsolete, but the nationalists will cling to their sinecures as long as possible. Ideologically the world is already divided into two blocs, and no fewer than two is possible. This is not stated dogmatically, but by way of definition. How else to define any idea save by contrast to what it is not?
“Now, there are they, and here we are: neither ‘side’ can win, and both ‘sides’ know it, so that issue will never be tested, but ordinary slobs--in the Soviets as well as in the States--are condemned to live from now on in an atmosphere of Hissing--Chandlers, Titoring-Mindzentys and mutual recriminations--perpetually. The only way to escape is via Forteanism."
