Posted on 02/20/2020 11:34:12 AM PST by CheshireTheCat
...Folks, Americans are extremely naive about what’s coming. We just cannot imagine that people who burst into tears in the face of gentle mockery of their political beliefs can ever come to power. They are already in power, in the sense that they have mesmerized leaders of American institutions. I’m telling you, that 2015 showdown on Yale’s campus between Prof. Nicholas Christakis and the shrieking students was profoundly symbolic. Christakis used the techniques of discursive reason to try to establish contact with these young people. None of it mattered. They yelled and cursed and sobbed. The fact that he disagreed with them, they took as an assault on their person. And Yale University caved to them! ...
(Excerpt) Read more at theamericanconservative.com ...
or you can read Wilhelm Reich’s definitive work: The Psychology of Mass Fascism
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Dude wrote some weird stuff back in the day.
bttt
A good read... Thanks!
weird? only called such because there was a vendetta against him by a lot of magazine people who brought in the FDA which framed him and, he was sentenced to 7 years for contempt of court, denied his heart medicine, died in prison, prison writings burned by guard that hated him. FDA burned the rest of his published works and forbade publication for 25 years.
Back in the early 20th he was Freud’s colleague - this before psychology existed - the two of them defined modern psychology with Freud saying one of them was right about how the human psyche works.
if you’ve never read anything he wrote, you would not understand what he wrote from what others wrote about him.
so yeah a real threat, so weird as was James Clerk Maxwell ...
Dangerously Intolerant Liberals Destroying Our Society = DILDOS
We are vulnerable. Western liberals have been in denial since WWII that the Nazis were a party of the left, not the right. They despised the capitalist societies of Britain and the US.
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Fascism and communism are competing brands of the same product.
Oooo Kay.
Loneliness
Social Atomization
Loss of Faith In Hierarchies And Institutions
The Desire To Transgress And Destroy
Indifference to Truth, and the Willingness To Believe Useful Lies
A Mania for Ideology
A Society That Values Loyalty More Than Expertise
The Politicization of Everything
Back in the USSR in the 1970s and the 1980s nobody believed the dogma. People repeated the ideological mantras for cynical reasons, to get advanced in their careers or get food packages. Many did it to protect their kids. But nobody sincerely believed. That is what ultimately saved us. As soon as the regime weakened a bit, it was doomed because there were no sincere believers any more. Everybody who did take the dogma seriously belonged to the generation of my great-grandparents.
In the US, though, the generation of the fanatical believers is only now growing up and coming into its prime. We’ll have to wait until their grandkids grow up to see a generation that will be so fed up with the dogma that it will embrace freedom of thought and expression. But that’s a long way away in the future.
I’m mentoring a group of young scholars in the Humanities to help them do research, and I’m starting to hate this task. Young scholars almost without exception think that scholarship is entirely about repeating woke slogans completely uncritically. Again, this is different from the USSR where scholars peppered their writing with the slogans but always took great pride in trying to sneak in some real thinking and real analysis behind the required ideological drivel. Every Soviet scholar starting from the 1970s was a dissident at heart because everybody knew that the ideology was rotten.
Well, listening to these developing little totalitarians who are AGAINST free speech, and want to eliminate the 1st Amendment and the 2nd as well-— is to realize they will be the young thugs coming after...us. And it brings to mind the reality of how to stop them, and to do what Solzhenitsyn said:
“What would things been like [in Russia] if during periods of mass arrests people had not simply sat there, paling with terror at every bang on the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but understood they had nothing to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people?” ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
which means?
“which means?”
Listen, little man. It means what it means. :)
sure big boy ill listen if you explain
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