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Crazy without provocation

December 13, 2024 |

A Quixotic President, by Daniel Tenreiro
Wed, January 13, 2021

“The thing is to turn crazy without any provocation,” Quixote tells his sidekick, Sancho Panza, when asked what compelled him to give up his quiet countryside existence and playact knight errantry in the mountains of Spain. A rich bachelor wasting away on his vineyard in La Mancha, the protagonist of Miguel de Cervantes’s novel grows frustrated with the smallness of life. He yearns instead for the toil, anxiety, and arms of the chivalric romances he spends his days reading. Unable to make his dream a reality, Quixote opts to pretend: He mounts a ragged horse, costumes himself in a rusted breastplate, and sets off in search of eternal fame.

when you see a person registered for one party proclaiming views completely opposite - is it a case of false deception or the stockholm syndrome or sinking into the swamp or…

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