Erik Larson Quote
Klemperer detected a certain hysteria of language in the new flood of decrees, alarms, and intimidation—This perpetual threatening with the death penalty!—and in strange, inexplicable episodes of paranoid excess, like the recent nationwide search. In all this Klemperer saw a deliberate effort to generate a kind of daily suspense, copied from American cinema and thrillers, that helped keep people in line. He also gauged it to be a manifestation of insecurity among those in power. In
Erik Larson
Klemperer detected a certain hysteria of language in the new flood of decrees, alarms, and intimidation—This perpetual threatening with the death penalty!—and in strange, inexplicable episodes of paranoid excess, like the recent nationwide search. In all this Klemperer saw a deliberate effort to generate a kind of daily suspense, copied from American cinema and thrillers, that helped keep people in line. He also gauged it to be a manifestation of insecurity among those in power. In
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