America's Love of Violence.

March 29, 2011 at 4:34 P.M. Numerous essays were severely damaged today in the ongoing frustration-inducement effort. I will make necessary corrections to each essay as quickly as possible. I cannot say how many essays in total have been damaged today. 

I prefer that attacks be aimed at me and my writings as opposed to family members or innocent others who are deemed "collateral damage" -- like those murdered children in Pakistan. 

If the federal government fails to act in these matters, a tragedy may ensue that may result either in my death or in the deaths of others at the hands of the Cuban-American Right-wing fanatics (and others) responsible for these computer crimes.

What more do you need me to do to deal with these matters in a serious way?

President Obama said that we are not the kind of people who remain impassive to torture and abuse. I ask the President of the United States of America not to ignore the continuing violations of my Constitutional rights and your rights of access to speech. Helene Cooper, "Defending Strikes, Obama Says He 'Refused to Wait,' Cites Need to Prevent Massacre in Lybia -- Rejects U.S. Force to Oust Qaddafi," in The New York Times, March 29, 2011, at p. A1. 

"Murder is always a sexual act." -- Norman Mailer.

I. "In the Belly of the Beast."

Yet another report of a crazed gun-wielding assailant shooting American officials out of anger and frustration confirms the need for gun control. I am aware that legal prohibitions on the ownership of guns may require revision of the Second Amendment. Arizona's response to the recent tragedy is to debate whether college professors and students should be permitted to carry firearms into classrooms. This seems like gasoline for the flames. ("'Shoot 'Em Up': A Movie Review.")

Republicans seeking to avoid this obvious conclusion that guns must be controlled or made illegal for most people -- in the aftermath of the bizarre and bloody shootings in Arizona -- claim, instead, that the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of speech should be repealed. This suggestion is absurd.

Unfettered expression of political opinions is essential to American democracy -- including opinions most people may consider stupid or ignorant along with their proponents. I am probably one of the proponents of opinions many people would disagree with or find "weird." Hence, my concern to protect minority or radical views. Rodney A. Smolla, Jerry Falwell v. Larry Flynt: The First Amendment on Trial (New York: St. Martin's, 1988), entirety.

Boundaries between "hate speech" or "words that wound" exceptions to free speech protections and legitimate or feisty political debate are not easily drawn. I decided to commit to non-violence early in my life because of awareness of the attractions of violence for the injured psyche, not because I am a particularly peaceful person. Reflections on the writings of Thomas Merton and Alfred Adler, Friedrich Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud as well as Dr. King helped to cement that decision. ("John Rawls and Justice.")

Paradoxically, this difficult decision to oppose and argue against violence was made more difficult and not easier by social pressures aimed at producing explosions in young urban males (such as I once was), together with the glorifications and celebrations of violence that are central to America's mythology of manhood's "True Grit."

Maybe provocation also explains much of the computer warfare I struggle against every day. If the goal of New Jersey's computer criminals is to generate a violent response from me then I can assure you that you will be disappointed. ("Deborah T. Poritz and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey.")

To oppose violence for any American man is to risk being called "queer" or "not manly enough." This does not cause me to second-guess my acceptance of non-violence. The defense of non-violence by Ghandi and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., as I have suggested elsewhere, cannot be surpassed ("What a man's gotta do.")

Identification of masculinity with violence may go a long way toward explaining Mr. Obama's continuing reluctance to "pull out" of Afghanistan and Iraq. The Freudian implications of the phrase "pulling out" are intended: "You gotta finish what you start."

No American president can survive being classified as a "wimp." This includes any woman who becomes president. If such a label is successfully attached to a candidate for the highest office in the land, he or she will not be elected (or reelected) to high office.

Fearlessness is something even my worst enemies will admit that I possess and display often enough. I know who I am and what I believe -- the things and persons for which I will pay the ultimate price -- at fifty-one years old.

But what about the twenty year-old urban or just poor male bombarded with contradictory signals regarding gender-options and -relations, new codes prescribing acceptable behavior in social settings, or with so-called "female-oriented" persons, better-known to us "oldsters" as "women"?

New social signals do not align very well with the strictures and codes of conduct in America's mean streets nor with the mores of action films and sporting events that men have absorbed from childhood.

It should not surprise us that many men are confused today about how they should behave with women or less powerful others.

American violence, depicted in highly graphic ways, is often the only real nanny "raising" young men in our cities and blighted rural areas. The same young men are usually under the care of harried and overworked single mothers who are unable to provide supervision or instruction concerning "coping issues."

I fear that many American young men are not reading Proust in the evenings by the fire.

My advice to such young men is to kill or "beat up" NOT the women in your life -- who are often powerless -- but the aggressive and self-destructive male ego that can be directed towards artistic creativity and political efforts that are entirely peaceful even as angry expressions of rage at oppressive power in America. "Machismo" is the enemy, not gender equality. Jospeh Goldstein & Colin Moynihan, "Unseen Woman's Cries, Then a Fatal Stabbing," in The New York Times, April 11, 2011, at p. A21. (Again: "What a Man's Gotta Do.")

To expect educationally-deprived and threatened young men living violent and, often, all-too brief lives, to develop displacement and transcendence skills on their own is ludicrous.

Society undermines rather than fostering "adjustment skills" (as psychologists say) for the vast majority of men in such situations.

One way of doing this "undermining" is by denying the merits in creative or aesthetic efforts -- efforts leading to the creation of works that are often stolen -- by such men who tend not to write like Ms. Naomi Klein or Mr. David Denby perhaps. (Compare "Not One More Victim" with "What a man's gotta do" then "What is it like to be plagiarized?" and "What is it like to be censored in America?")

Young men who are poor or urban, African-American, brown, or white are insulted and trivialized, denied recognition and respect, relegated to McDonald's or the military. African-American men, especially, are expected to end in prison or dead since 1 out 3 will experience exactly such a fate, prison or violent death, sometimes to the delight of persons like Stuart Rabner, who must be among those witnessing and doing nothing about the censorship and computer crimes to which my writings are subjected on an hourly basis. My situation has become highly symbolic and important to more people than officials still attempting a "cover-up" of these matters seem to realize. ("Stuart Rabner and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey" and "No More Cover-Ups and Lies, Chief Justice Rabner!")

The degree of condescension and disdain that I have experienced -- despite a post-graduate level of education and some fairly "elite" cultural experiences -- is something that, say, David Remnick, is unlikely to encounter. (Again: "What is it like to be plagiarized?" and "Barack Obama and 'The New Yorker.'")

Violent reactions confirming stereotypes must not only be expected, but also intended responses for mostly young men treated in this inhumane way. Men who are subjected to control through brutality, whether psychological or physical, may be expected to lash out at their oppressors. ("Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture" and "An Open Letter to Cyrus Vance, Jr., Esq.")

"Feminists" tend to underestimate the challenges faced by such young men. No doubt these challenges and popular behaviorist manipulations or conditioning efforts are defended as "necessary" or for the victims' "own good." Sadism is always sexual. (Compare again: "Not One More Victim" with "What a Man's Gotta Do.")

Given the brutal lessons taught about manhood, money, consumption, and the early discovery that much of America's Constitutional promise of due process of law, equality, or freedom has become a lie -- as regards persons, like themselves, who are lacking in resources -- the options for deprived men's respect and dignity begin to diminish or vanish completely. Violence is one guarantee that a man has your attention.

Violence seems to be the one remaining equalizer in America. This may explain some of the rioting in Ferguson, Missouri.

Spacing will be altered on my first posting of this essay, computer wars disabled my security system this morning, efforts are still underway to censor and suppress my copyright- and Constitutionally-protected writings. I am used to this harassment and undeterred. ("Censorship and Cruelty in New Jersey.")

Does America continue to adhere to the rule of law? You decide.

No indictment in the murder of Eric Garner is one thing, but the daily killings of African-American men and women that is accompanied by corporate media indifference (and even glee) baffles all human understanding. Mr. Trump's moronic statements receive more attention that the life-or-death issue of racism in America today.

Genius is a category of guilt for poor men, especially African-Americans. This may go a long way towards explaining Mr. Obama's troubles with Mr. Netanyahu and others. ("Freedom for Mumia Abu-Jamal" and "Mumia Abu-Jamal and the Unconstitutionality of the Death Penalty.")

Racism is instilled or taught to poor white men as another mechanism of control. Resistance to racism is what African-Americans are taught -- or better learn quickly -- if they wish to survive:

"I would rather die than lead my father's or mother's life of a slave."

I heard this statement many times as a young man and, later, as a lawyer representing defendants in criminal matters in the most corrupt and befouled courts in the nation. ("Law and Ethics in the Soprano State" and "New Jersey's Failed Judiciary" as well as "New Jersey's Judges Humiliate America.")

Why is America a factory for the production of monsters?

Much is left out of our lessons to the young concerning truth and meaning at a time when fundamental social institutions are subject to a "crisis of confidence" and religions are collapsing. Dr. Phil will not fill the void.

The desperate spiritual and moral hunger of a generation is not being fed and is denied in our increasingly secular mainstream culture that is veering towards nihilism even as various fundamentalisms emerge in reaction to this absence of meaning and cultural void. You will find these ideas plagiarized soon in the Times, by Mr. Greenfield or Mr. Brooks perhaps? ("Nihilists in Disneyworld" and "Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Philosophy of Science.")

This brings us to Jared Loughen and the murders and woundings in Arizona this week:

" ... if people surrender their freedom" -- even if they are only convinced that incarceration is their reality -- "they MUST hate and [this] is seen in [the] fact that totalitarian governments must provide for their people some objects for the hatred which is generated by the government's having taken away their freedom. [Al Qaeda? Taliban?] The Jews were made the scapegoat in Hitler's Germany, along with the 'enemy nations,' and now Stalinism has to turn the hate existing among the Russian people against the 'warmongering' Western countries. [Mr. Putin?] As shown so vividly in 1984, if a government sets out to take away people's freedom, it must siphon off their hatred and direct it towards outside groups -- otherwise the people would revolt, or go into a collective psychosis, or become psychologically dead and inert, no good as people or as a fighting force. This is one of the most vicious aspects of McCarthyism: it capitalizes on the impotent hatred many people in this country feel toward those who keep us in a stymied position in Korea, [Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, elsewhere?] namely, the Russian Communists, [the Taliban today] and it turns this hatred of citizens towards their fellow citizens."

Rollo May, "Freedom and Inner Strength," in Man's Search for Himself (New York: Delta, 1956), pp. 150-156. ("Time to End the Embargo Against Cuba" and "Fidel Castro's 'History Will Absolve Me.'")

II. "An American Dream."

"To be the center of any situation was, he thought, the real marrow of his bone -- better to expire as a devil in the fire than an angel in the wings." -- Norman Mailer.

"When [Arizona's] Gabrielle Giffords tried to meet with her constituents in a Tucson parking lot on Saturday, she came face to face with an environment [entirely] at odds with that constitutional [sic.] ideal, and she nearly paid for it with her life."

The Right-wing extremist or fascist element of American society -- well-represented in the Cuban-American community, sadly -- struck again in this latest shooting incident.

Unable to articulate plausible political arguments and complaints, bewitched, bothered and bewildered by a world he no longer understood, Jared Loughner, engaged in a shooting spree meant to communicate what many young men feel -- anger at changes in the nation and world that will deprive Loughner and the members of his generation of what his father could take for granted, overriding importance in the world by virtue of citizenship and gender alone.

Significantly, The New York Post reported that Mr. Loughner had worn "red thong underwear" when he went on his killing spree.

The world is no longer the oyster of white young males who are native-born in the the USA. Mr. Loughner and his generation will not do as well, for the most part, as his parents have done. Derek Thompson, "The End of Work: Technology Will Soon Erase Millions of Jobs," The Atlantic Monthly, July/August, 2015, p. 50. (Better late than never for journalists to get it. Is Derek Thompson also Caitland Flanagan? See Anthony Burgess's novel A Clockwork Orange.)

100 million desperate people will be at America's doorstep in the next ten years unless we do something about the growing crises in the world for which billions hold us responsible. Worst of all, horribly, a majority of Americans will be "colored" soon. 2044 is the magic number. Oh, my God!

Perhaps such irrational fears and paranoia (together with ignorance of the world in which they live) explains the popularity of someone like, say, Donald Trump, to the millions of "red meat" Republicans who read their Bibles literally and polish their rifles nightly.

All of this analysis is too complicated for a young man seeking Gary Cooper's solutions in High Noon. "Hang 'em high!" Or "shoot 'em where they lay!"

Responses focusing on developments at the world monetary fund and capital shifts to Asia are just too complicated. In fact, complex explanations of difficult issues for many Right-wingers are "convoluted gibberish."

Mr. Loughner may have failed to realize that High Noon is one of the greatest films ever made on the subject of the burdens of struggling against evil and in opposition to violence. Keep it simple for Jared. Kill the brown people. Kill the politicians making everything complicated. Kill somebody. Walk into the machines' main frame, like "Neo" in The Matrix. ("'The Matrix': A Movie Review.")

Perhaps Jared thinks the "Matrix" is real. Images of quick and violent solutions have been "incepted" into Jared's mind. Jared's concerns about "mind control" were real enough, except that they were focused on the wrong target. The enemy is on your television set, Jared, nor on your lap-top computer, I-Phone, and texting service. Perhaps it is all of the above.

The manipulations of advertisers and big media are quite real. They are about getting your money. The "enemy" is a cultural system that seeks to manipulate you into outdated gender roles that require your violent response to conflicts of all kinds. ("'Inception': A Movie Review" and "American Hypocrisy and Luis Posada Carriles.")

"Jared Loughner, the man accused of shooting Ms. Giffords, killing a federal judge and five other people, and wounding 13 others, appears to be mentally-ill."

You think? The person writing this editorial must have attended Yale University to make such brilliant deductions:

"His paranoid Internet ravings about government mind control place him well beyond the usual ideological categories."

Yeah, well how about Sarah Palin? Please see Vance Packard's The Hidden Persuaders. ("The Wanderer and His Shadow" and, again, "'The Matrix': A Movie Review.")

"But he is very much part of a widespread squall of fear, anger and intolerance that has produced violent threats against scores of politicians and infected the political mainstream with violent imagery. With easy and legal access to semi-automatic weapons like the one used in the parking lot, those already teetering on the edge of sanity can turn a threat into a nightmare."

Mr. Trump? Governor Christie? Obviously, the situation is perilous:

"The federal judge who was killed, John Roll, had received hundreds of menacing phone calls and death threats, especially after he allowed a case to proceed against a rancher accused of assaulting 16 Mexicans as they tried to cross his land. This rage, stirred by talk radio hosts, required marshals to give the judge and his family 24-hour protection for a month. Around the nation, threats to federal judges have soared for a decade. ... "

Such threats will increase with the challenge to the judiciary's traditional responsibility in our system of protecting the rights of unpopular defendants, like Mr. Loughner, or America's "uncharged" detainees. Recently, federal judges -- and, much worse, state judges -- have often abdicated this responsibility out of fear or incompetence. ("New Jersey Supreme Court's Implosion" and "New Jersey's Feces-Covered Supreme Court" and "New Jersey's Legal System is a Whore House" then, again, "Deborah T. Poritz and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey" and "New Jersey's Judges Disgrace America.")

" ... it's legitimate to hold Republicans [or Tea Party members] and particularly their most virulent supporters in the media responsible for the gale of anger that has produced the vast majority of threats, setting the nation on edge. Many on the right [sic.] have exploited the arguments for division, reaping political power by demonizing immigrants, or persuaded many Americans that the government is not just misguided, but the enemy of the people."

As economic pressures increase articulateness decreases while the media abandons their responsibility to educate by addressing issues in a meaningful and inclusive way that allows previously excluded voices into the discussion. "Media" is a plural word. True this may involve some sacrifice of "entertainment values" in media discussions. ("Skinny People Dressed in Black" and "David Denby is Not Amused.")

Millions of young men in decades to come will find themselves without gainful employment, permanently -- possibly at a lull between our various military conflicts in the world -- pumped-up on steroids and the various hormones fed to the artificially-inflated lifestock that go into our quadruple burgers.

Informed by Mr. O'Reilly that little brown people want to deprive them of their unearned advantages in life and saturated with images of violence and mayhem, cruelty and torture will become an art for these "guys."

Among likely victims of out-of-control male aggression generated by frustrations are gay men, women, children, and billions of "others."

This is a fascinating dilemma set forth, again, by Anthony Burgess in A Clockwork Orange and by Bret Easton Ellis in American Psycho. If there is a single theme to the writings of Norman Mailer then it must be this curious fascination with violence and masculinity as the template in which American manhood must be forged.

Violence is turning into a mood ring for American men, preferably violence aimed at little brown men or their white "ladyfolk" in big city jobs. Luckily for these thugs it is mostly African-Americans who will go to prison in the USA. ("So Black and So Blue in Prison.")

A set of attitudes and skills developed by our early ancestors for hunting bison will come in handy when we are hunting for oil in the Middle East. However, the same skills and drives are a bit of a problem in society, or in the halls of Congress, or within America's courtrooms. ("Little Brown Men Are Only Objects for Us.")

Continuing behaviorist attempts to ignore intentionality or the neglected human capacities for transcendence -- whether religious or secular forms of transcendence -- in dealing with this little problem of male aggression (sometimes exhibited by women!) leads only to banal and shallow commentary from journalists in so-called "elite" publications. "Caitlin Flanagan"? ("Manohla Dargis Strikes Again!")

Meaning and intentions, phenomenology and hermeneutics among psychologists and criminologists, or jurists, must not be ignored in coping with this intellectual and political crisis. We need philosophical sophistication as well as social science learning. (Again: "Nihilists in Disneyworld" and see Charlize Theron's performance in "Monster.")

Jared's outburst in Arizona is a reaction to frustration and complexity for what has been aptly described as a "excess" gender-role (machismo) as opposed to sex (men).

Let us reason together. Let us understand one another's problems. Americans can not walk over people anymore. Billions of persons on the planet will not starve and die for our SUVs. The rights, feelings, needs of others in Africa, Latin America, Asia and the 44 million Americans experiencing hunger on a regular basis must be taken into consideration along with Ms. Palin's "concerns." (Russians can also see us from their homes, Ms. Palin.)

Starvation and murder are never legitimate instruments of "persuasion" to be used against persons who presume to disagree with us: Joy Gordon, "The Influence of the United States," in Invisible War: The United States and the Iraq Sanctions (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010), pp. 39-60. (Does America suffer from "male aggression syndrome"?)

We are part of one another's lives and our human-created threat to the planet resulting from greed endangers all of us. The protest we feel must be expressed in language (or images) by way of communication or ceremony and not domination. ("Drawing Room Comedy: A Philosophical Essay in the Form of a Film Script.")

As America represses dissent and tortures dissidents while censoring more speech, there will be increased violence, like the terrible shootings that have taken the lives of children and conscientious public officials struggling to live with and "for" one another before it is too late.

Censorship, silencing, marginalization will generate violence. Communication will diminish violence. I prefer sexual play to physical violence any time. ("Good Will Humping" and "Genius and Lust.")

Billions of people experience something like the silencing and brutality obvious in the computer attacks I defend against as disdain for their opinions, expressions, beliefs and rights. They do not matter just as I do not matter. They are not counted when they visit my sites. Crimes committed against them do not merit the attention of the authorities. Their books are not published or distributed to book sellers unless they are stolen in order to appear under the names of others. They do not see their names or concerns reflected in The New York Review of Books. ("What is it like to be censored in America?" and "What is it like to be tortured?" then "What is it like to be plagiarized?" and "'Brideshead Revisited': A Movie Review.")

"My underlying assumption, essentially a metaphysical one, is that every human act or phenomenon is an expression of the whole nature of man and proceeds, therefore, from the primordial character of man's being-in-the-world. Man is the being who makes himself by negating himself. As Sartre puts it, in a phrase which I borrow and repeat throughout, 'Man is the source of negativity in the world.' The primary means of this ambivalent process is power; power over nature, over oneself, over others, and, ultimately, over the gods. Love, for example, may be understood as an expression of power, an implicit form of aggression and a form of self-making. In love, I possess the other as an object to be conquered and subdued. [Or I give myself as an endowment to the other who is to subdue me.] At the same time, love is a creative act which transcends aggression. And the transcendence of aggression cannot be conceived apart from the expression of it. ... [Become a warrior for love by yielding power to the other through your creative works.]"

Lionel Rubinoff, The Pornography of Power: An Inquiry Into Man's Capacity for Evil (New York: Ballantine, 1967), p. 6. ("Out of the Past.")

Sources:

Periodicals:

Joseph Goldstein & Colin Moynihan, "Unseen Woman's Cries, Then a Fatal Stabbing," in The New York Times, April 11, 2011, at p. A21. (We're not "all the same.")

Neil Ganzlinger, "The Psychopathic Killer," in The New York Times, January 3, 2011, at p. C3.

Michael Farrell, "Slow Job Growth Dims Expectations of Early Recovery: Unemployment at 9.4%," in The New York Times, January 8, 2011, at p. A1. (Real unemployment still close to 10%. Mr. Obama's lowering unemployment to about 5.8% in 2015 is still not acknowledged by the corporate media.)

Michael Slackman, "Bomb Blasts Awakens Egyptians to Threat From Religious Strife," in The New York Times, January 7, 2011, at p. A1. (Egypt and Syria may be next. Please keep an eye on Saudi Arabia's dangerous border with Yemen.)

Shawn Barbury, "Christie's Proposal for Roads Criticized: Using Port Funds Called Bad Precedent," in The Record, January 8, 2011, at p. A-1. ($1.8 BILLION "scooped" allegedly for road repair.)

AP, "Freed Man Getting $1 Million: NJ Settles a Lawsuit for Wrongful Conviction," in The Record, January 8, 2011, at p. A-4. (Larry Leroy Peterson, another African-American cleared by DNA evidence after a wrongful conviction of a 1989 rape and murder is 59 years-old and spent 21 years in prison and came close to being executed. I will be writing about this case at greater length. "Arthur Goldberg"? "America's Holocaust.")

Charles Stile, "School Cuts Scrutinized: Justices at Center of a Storm," in The Record, January 6, 2011, at p. A-1. (More mutual backstabbing among New Jersey's justices and allegations of bribery in Trenton. Mr. Stile [Mr. Rabner] does not like Justice Rivera-Soto.)

"Bloodshed and Invective in Arizona," (Editorial) in The New York Times, January 10, 2011, at p. A20.

Leslie Brody, "Supreme Court Grills Both Sides on Funding," in The Record, January 6, 2011, at p. A-1.

Deena Yellin, "Clifton to Cut 22 Vacant Fire, Police Jobs: Works to Stay Under 2% Tax Cap," in The Record, January 6, 2011, at p. L-3.

Miguel Haft & Claire Cain Miller, "Web Outruns Privacy Law," in The New York Times, January 10, 2011, at p. A1.

K. Johnson, S. Kovaleski, D. Frosch, & E. Lipton, "After Suspect's Outbursts, Foreboding in Class," in The New York Times, January 10, 2011, at p. A-1.

Marc Lacey, "'I Planned Ahead' In An Envelope, FBI Says," in The New York Times, January 10, 2011, at p. A1.

Bernard-Henry Levy, "The Stoning of Sakine: A Looming Atrocity in Iran," in The New Republic, December 30, 2011, at p. 12. (A woman is about to be stoned to death for adultery in 2011.)

James C. McKinley Jr., "Terror Accusations, But Perjury Charges: Cuban Exile Heads to Federal Court," in The New York Times, January 10, 2011, at p. A9. ("American Hypocrisy and Luis Posada Carriles." If convicted, Mr. Posada Carriles will certainly spend the rest of his life in prison. Mysteriously, Mr. Posada Carriles was aquitted -- if not exhonerated -- for his dishonorable actions.)

James C. McKinley, Jr., "Cuban Exile Lied to U.S., Prosecutor Tells Texas Jury," in The New York Times, January 13, 2011, at p. A17. (Is there a connection between Mr. Posada Carriles or his organization and Senator Robert -- "Big Bob" -- Menendez? Marco Rubio? My point is that Mr. Posada-Carriles was "exhonerated," legally, but remains highly blameworthy, morally.)

Books:

Norman O. Brown, Life Against Death (Conn.: Weslyean University Press, 1959).

Geoffrey Clive, The Romantic Enlightenment (New York: Meridian Books, 1960).

R.G. Collingwood, The New Leviathan (Oxford: Clarenden Press, 1942).

Anthony Easthope, What a Man's Gotta Do: Masculine Myth in Popular Culture (New York & London: Routledge, 1990).

Joy Gordon, Invisible War: The United States and the Iraq Sanctions (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010).

R.D. Laing, The Divided Self (London: Tavistock, 1961).

R.D. Laing, The Politics of Experience (New York & London: Pantheon, 1967).

Konrad Lorenz, On Aggression (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1966).

Norman Mailer, "Introduction," in Jack Henry Abbott, In the Belly of the Beast (New York: Vintage, 1081).

Norman Mailer, An American Dream (New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1964).

Rollo May, Man's Search for Meaning (New York: Dell, 1956).

Lionel Rubinoff, The Pornography of Power (New York: Ballantine, 1967).

Rodney Smolla, Jerry Falwell v. Larry Flynt: The First Amendment on Trial (New York: St. Martin's, 1988).

George Steiner, Language and Silence: Essays on Language, Literature and the Inhuman (New York: Atheneum, 1967).

Cinema:

Something Wild (1984).

Finding Forrester (1998).