Michael Malone - Weebly

sense of rightness Ernest Ransom had fought World
War II. What, thought Hayes, would people like Ernest
Ransom do without Hitler? Faith in Hitler's insanity kept
the modern world sane, as faith that the plague was
God's visitation helped to keep the Middle Ages from
going completely mad. Hitler's was the easy face of
horror both to bankers like Ransom, who saw peril in
Communist hippies like Sidney Blossom, and to
populists like Blossom, who saw peril in Fascist
capitalists like Ernest Ransom.
Yet Hayes, too, clutched at a faith in evil still
human. For the editor's enemy was organized crime, of
which the Mafia was the least dangerous. Hayes meant
crime organized so blandly and on such a big scale by
bureaucracies like ITT and U.S.A. that none of the
victims ever realized crimes were being committed. So,
while he believed in an impersonal conspiracy, he
believed it to be under the conscious control of evil
persons. A boardroom of waxy mustaches.
But Hayes's imagined conspirators, those military
and industrial men, can no more weave beyond their
own private webs than he can, though their threads may