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Community Values
Xantha Miller, Allison | December 24, 2001 issue

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The article focuses on two books: "The Rise and Fall of Synanon: A California Utopia," by Rod Janzen and "Shoes Outside the Door: Desire, Devotion and Excess at San Francisco," by Zen Center. With the end of the cold war, the true believer as bourgeois folk demon fell into disuse like an action figure from last summer's blockbuster. Since September 11, 2001, however, true-believerism has been staging a comeback as experts falter in explaining the mindset of the terrorists: they are desperate men from oppressed and dispossessed nations with nothing to live for.

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BOOKS; RISE & Fall of Synanon, The (Book); SHOES Outside the Door (Book); JANZEN, Rod; CENTER, Zen; COLD War; TERRORISM; UTOPIAS
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