[Old Professer]

Might as well try to explain this, click here

[shrinkermd]

"It is of interest to note the means by which a mass movement accentuates and perpetuates the individual incompleteness of its adherents. By elevating dogma above reason, the individual’s intelligence is prevented from becoming self-reliant.

Economic dependence is maintained by centralizing economic power and by a deliberately created scarcity of the necessities of life. Social self-sufficiency is discouraged by crowded housing or communal quarters, and by enforced daily participation in public functions.

Ruthless censorship of literature, art, music and science prevents even the creative few from living self-sufficient lives. The inculcated devotions to church, party, country, leader and creed also perpetuate a state of incompleteness. For every devotion is a socket which demands the fitting in of a complementary part from without. Thus people raised in the atmosphere of a mass movement are fashioned into incomplete and dependent human beings even when they have within themselves the making of self-sufficient entities. Though strangers to frustration and without grievance, they will yet exhibit the peculiarities of people who crave to lose themselves and be rid of an existence that is irrevocably spoiled. (p. 128)Eric Hoffer, The True Believer.

[Argus]

The Irish are also nostalgic for the Potato Famine.

[cornelis]

Does Ostalgia require this?

[GOP_1900AD]

The Perestroika Deception.

[Prodigal Son]

Goodbye Lenin was a pretty good flick. Saw it last night.

[StarfireIV]

Perhaps Kat Witt can also devote a segment to the border guards and that wonderful invention that fired bullets in the direction of someone attempting to escape to the West.