This is classic mass hysteria that you are dealing with dear Frances. It isn’t rational and it is extremely dangerous, because the hysteric is without any sense of proportion.
Thus, the minor becomes major, which is then cribbed and fudged into everything it does so that even the smallest non conformity becomes grossly magnified and overwhelmingly threatening.
This is the archetypal bigot, whose sense of moral threat is so disproportionate and compliance parameters so narrow, even the most virtuous and morally careful citizens can inadvertently fall foul of them.
And they are potential killers if they are crossed. They are all too quick to bear witness at a witchcraft trial, and hunt down suspects with an alacrity and violence that is for them, as self justifying as it is necessary.
This is classic mass hysteria that you are dealing with dear Frances. It isn’t rational and it is extremely dangerous, because the hysteric is without any sense of proportion.
Thus, the minor becomes major, which is then cribbed and fudged into everything it does so that even the smallest non conformity becomes grossly magnified and overwhelmingly threatening.
This is the archetypal bigot, whose sense of moral threat is so disproportionate and compliance parameters so narrow, even the most virtuous and morally careful citizens can inadvertently fall foul of them.
And they are potential killers if they are crossed. They are all too quick to bear witness at a witchcraft trial, and hunt down suspects with an alacrity and violence that is for them, as self justifying as it is necessary.
Frances is against the world but also against sophomoric censorship. That she cannot say the title of a seminal book is pathetic.