ning to get going at "humanity." After having written several thousand
pages on the subject, I find myself in the position of having to rewrite
the whole thing, this time to nail it down for good. I began writing the
Murder of Christ, * and it runs very well. It is a better Little Man book,
further removed emotionally from my own sufferings due to the Little
Man. It is incredible to realize that a whole world of statesmen, philos
ophers, psychologists and the rest of them have so thoroughly avoided
heretofore touching the main subject of mass-psychology and sociology,
the detailed routine behaviour of the so-called man in the street.
There is no hope at all if we don't start getting at that. I keep hitting
right and left around myself at every single worker in my neighborhood,
when I see them patting people on the back instead of telling people the
truth about themselves. What a hideous, cowardly evasion of the issue.
I wish I could talk these things over with you, and I am quite sure
that very soon the opportunity will offer itself here at Orgonon. The
complete and frank revelation of the catholic action in the U.S.
Embassy in London would be entirely in agreement with the American
way of procedure and would help to get you the visum. Americans don't
like Catholics very much.
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[On June 28, 1951, the American Consul in London wrote to
Neill's M.P. friend, Mr. Moeran, informing him that the State
Department,. "after careful consideration," had decided that it
would be "prejudicial to the interests of the United States" to grant
entry to Neill. Neill forwarded a copy of this letter to Reich.]Summerhill School
Leiston, Suffolk
My dear Reich,July 3, 195 1Well, well, looks as if I'll never see you again. I wish I could
get some magazine to print a letter of protest, but the dollar dependence
on U.S.A. precludes even that.
No, I don't hold that art is an escape, in part possibly, for I find- The Murder of Christ, first published in 1953, explores the meaning of Christ's
life and attributes his death to man's conditioned hatred of everything that is
truly and fully alive-whenever and in whatever shape it may appear.