Premise
"The Americans were not an oppressed people;" (27)
"When the ideas of the Americans [i.e. the Founding Fathers] are examined comprehensively, ...one cannot but be struck by the predominant characteristics of fear and frenzy, the exaggerations..."(47)
"...the paranoiac obsession"
"The ideas of the Americans seem, in fact, to form what can only be called a revolutionary syndrome."
"The grandiose and feverish language of the Americans..."
"The hysteria of the Americans' thinking..."
Conclusion
“What [the Americans] expressed may not have been for the most part factually true, but it was always psychologically true. In this sense their rhetoric was never detached from the social and political reality;” L
What is this nice man talking about? The American rhetoric was not true (for the most part) “factually” (like, “really”). He just said that. It was NOT TRUE. Period there.
But, he says it WAS true… in their HEADS.
In their heads. He's already established that there were tweety birds flying around in their heads--they were paranoid, obsessive, hysterical, frenzied (Were the F.F.'s Chinese? Oh my god.)---that was the “reality” in there. And “in this sense” they were detached from reality.
Yes they were.
Yes they were.
Oh yes they were.
Yes they were, nice man; you are w-r-o-n-g. Period there.
Bad book.
