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Occupation of the office of Prof. von BAEYER. The patients demand blank prescriptions. Instead of an answer clinic chief von BAEYER lets loose the waiting police on these patients. Nametaking and ban on entering the house. Previously (all happened in March) the university and the clinic administration had the electricity and the telephone deliberately cut off for days in all the SPK rooms and by going through the SPK rooms with duplicate keys at midday they offered the SPK rooms for use to several secretaries for the first day of the following month (April 1970!). ("These and the junk and garbage (patients) will soon be cleared out, then can be refurnished immediately".) This we have prevented to happen.

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1. Wars Are Not Fought Against Evil
2. Wars Are Not Launched in Defense
3. Wars Are Not Waged Out of Generosity
4. Wars Are Not Unavoidable
5. Warriors Are Not Heroes
6. War Makers Do Not Have Noble Motives
7. Wars Are Not Prolonged for the Good of Soldiers
8. Wars Are Not Fought on Battlefields
9. Wars Are Not Won, and Are Not Ended By Enlarging Them
10. War News Does Not Come From Disinterested Observers
11. War Does Not Bring Security and Is Not Sustainable
12. Wars Are Not Legal
13. Wars Cannot Be Both Planned and Avoided
14. War Is Over If You Want It

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"In one series of experiments cited by Goleman, subjects looked at pictures that juxtaposed neutral images with distressing ones; in some cases, eye-tracking determined that a subject's gaze could go right to the edge of a distressing image and trace its outline without ever straying into it:

Spence, in trying to figure out just how such a trick might be possible, suggests there must be some part of the visual system that takes a "pre-look," glimpses [the distressing stimulus] in peripheral vision, marks it as a psychological danger area, and guides the gaze to the safe areas. The whole operation never reaches awareness.

These filtering mechanisms, in extreme circumstances, make it possible for people living under tyrannical regimes not to notice things they're forbidden to acknowledge, or enable people in dysfunctional families not to notice ongoing abuse, etc. But such mechanisms needn't only function defensively, to manage anxiety by screening out intolerably threatening information. In the kind of immersion I describe above, they function to maximize pleasure by screening out whatever threatens the pleasurable experience."

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"There can be no unmotivated free will for Diderot despite the brain-breaking apologies concocted for it on occasion by the philosophers."