Posted on 03/06/2015 1:47:36 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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You've been analysed and judged - found opinionated, judgmental and wanting.
But not to worry social science and social justice is here to help fix you.
Seriously. This is sick.
Quick! Read this - the perfect antidote - TRUTH!:
The Perils of Designer Tribalism [I love this essay - it's a VERY GOOD read]
".....Bruckner’s book is a vigorous indictment of “Third Worldism”—the odious species of romance that glorifies everything foreign, exotic, and primitive while simultaneously railing against civilization, science, and modernity. (That other social philosopher, W. S. Gilbert, was right to save a place on his famous list for “the idiot who praises with enthusiastic tone/ All centuries but this and every country but his own.”)
The very power of Bruckner’s indictment helps to explain its neglect. The message he brought was distinctly unwelcome music to the ears of politically correct intellectuals, whose smugness and sense of moral superiority, then as now, was inextricably bound up with the mendacities of Third Worldism and kindred specimens of emotional blackmail. (Just listen to Susan Sontag on Kosovo or Michael Ignatieff on Rwanda.) “Solidarity with oppressed peoples,” Bruckner wrote,
is above all a gigantic weapon aimed at the West. The logic of aggression is at work in Third World solidarity, and this has made it a continuation of the Cold War by other means. Being non-European is enough to put one on the side of right. Being European or being supported by a European power is enough to make one suspect. The bloody messes in banana republics, and butchery of political opposition and the dictatorial lunacy by their petty chieftains are all brushed aside. Such trifles will not restrain the progress of these peoples toward socialism. What seems criminal in Cuba, Angola, and Guinea has the real purpose of washing away the far greater crime of colonialism.
Clearly, Bruckner’s message is as pertinent today as it was in the 1980s—more so, perhaps, since the attitudes it chronicles, if often less histrionic, are today more thoroughly institutionalized, more thoroughly absorbed into established opinion.
It is worth pointing out that, unlike many Third Worldists, Bruckner had firsthand knowledge of the problems about which he wrote. Having worked as a member of the International Action Against Hunger, he animated compassion with deeds. If this tempered his romanticism, it also sharpened his vision. Bruckner did not march arm-in-arm with Jean-Paul Sartre. He was not a beneficiary of UNESCO’s extortionist escapades. He did not rail against Western oppression. He did not curse the evils of colonialism. On the contrary, he understood that the West’s real crime was not pursuing but rather abandoning its responsibilities as a colonial power. ......................" [Next, OUT COMES THE SCALPEL which lays bear liberal hypocrisy and the destruction it has and continues to cause in a very FRANK way - Enjoy].
When you’re in the asylum, if the inmates can persuade others that the authorities running it are insane, by definition it means the inmates are sane and normal. This is why the left remains truly dangerous and evil. Up is down, down is up, right is wrong, wrong is right.
Think: Climate Change - consensus.
Thanks for the The Perils of Designer Tribalism link. It looks good.
Academics have foisted Postmodernism on several generations now and the results are obvious.
How does he explain Communists killing millions???
> rightwing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation.
Obamacare
Internet takeover
IRS abuse
etc.
All Democrat authoritarianism.
Great Society, New Deal, etc etc
More Democrat authoritarianism.
He has published over 120 journal articles and book chapters and four co-edited book volumes, including Social and Psychological Bases of Ideology and System Justification (Oxford, 2009). He has received numerous honors and awards, including the Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize, Erik Erikson Award for Early Career Research Achievement in Political Psychology, International Society for Self and Identity Early Career Award, Society for Personality and Social Psychology Theoretical Innovation Prize, Society of Experimental Social Psychology Career Trajectory Award, and the Morton Deutsch Award for Distinguished Scholarly and Practical Contributions to Social Justice.
He has served on several editorial boards and executive committees of professional societies and is currently editor of the Oxford University Press book series on "Political Psychology" and a Vice President of the International Society of Political Psychology. He is a Fellow of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, and the Association of Psychological Science"
It isn’t just 3rd worldism— though that exotic love of all primitive’s is Rousseau-ian in its origins (the noble savage surprisingly eats civilized liberals for supper as they encountered them in real life)- it is the utter need to feel “good about one’s self” for “helping” people who just want to be left alone to live free. The meddlers, the social justice “scientists”, the kind of people that write and study the drivel like the posted article.
First, psychology (hate to say it, but really) is a NON-science trying to ascribe quantitative measurement to behaviours that are largely determined by enviro-genetic interactions and triggers (the real science of biochemistry definitely shows this). So that as a basis for this laborius tedius interview negates any “conclusions” about the conservative mind. The entire “science” comes out the head of Pavlov— whom Lenin wanted to know- “can people be made to perform like your dogs?” , with a goal for subjugating and controlling vast populations, with death and destruction, the result of his own, and Stalin’s very real mental illness. Lenin’s from neurosyphillis and Stalin a true psychopathic killer whose entire motivation was not to be discovered for having been an agent for the Tsar’s secret police (which he was, after being captured for bank robbery for the Bolsheviks).
So this “science” is fake, and virtually all the people in it treat it as a religion, just like global warming, or liberalism-—it is all tribal... and you MUST submit to the chief’s worldview. And you MUST define that submission as freedom, the way they think it is. A rude awakening for the youth that fall prey to this, and one that never occurs to the sixty plus year olds who are STILL living in the 60’s radicals. The clintoons for example, or the butt boy of Frank Marshal Davis— our current ambisexual narcissist in chief and his “tribe”.
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Sometimes I wish I had a salon account. I’d post this: “ So, you go from Nazis to contemporary republicans in two paragraphs. Okay, so you progressives still don’t get it. Nazi was short for “National Socialist”. No party today looks like socialism more than the current democrat party. However, I don’t expect any of you progressive liberals to ever make the connection. It would mean your whole life has had no meaning.”
It began as an interesting piece that descended into tedious morass of subjectivity — at which point I suspended further donations of my time.
It’s the Left that continually demonstrates the desire for stringent, enforceable controls over behavior. And while the right has a decisive moral perspective, it doesn’t turn to the iron fist to see that its desires are met.
Can’t make an omelet without breaking some eggs.
War on Drugs
anti-gambling laws
anti-prostitution laws
FCC decency regulations
I don’t exactly call it rightwing authoritarianism but the right gets in bed with the left for their own moralism creating a majority constituency for the same tyrannical power that simply did not exist from 1776 until about 1900, starting with temperance on the right marrying progressivism on the left.
The Left can’t wait to reinstate the Soviet era.
Right down to the abhorrent abuse of psychiatry as a tool of oppression.
It explains the Left’s assault on - push to weaken and transform:
Education- no valedictorians - no homeschooling - no knowledge
Military - cut back - diversify - criticize
U.S. manned space program - bury “cowboy” can-do and replace with “green” purpose
Sports - transform or get rid of
Religion - infiltrate and transform
This is explains those recent and GOOD questions about Obama’s love of country, patriotism and faith.
In order to transform the nation (and the world) you must first weaken its institutions.
Sorry. All you need to know:
1. Horse sh*t.
2. Severe horse sh*t.
3. Cosmic horse sh*t.
4. This horse sh*t.
Go to any teachers lounge and voice conservative ideas and see how the, “Ingroup” dynamics of, “The basic idea is that there are five or six innate (evolutionarily prepared) bases for human “moral” judgment and behavior, namely fairness (which moral foundations theorists understand largely in terms of reciprocity), avoidance of harm, ingroup loyalty, obedience to authority, and the enforcement of purity standards” hold up.
Liberals are incredibly intolerant of moral assertions different from their own when they huddle up into a group.
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