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Psychopathy and the Origins of Totalitarianism (A Very Important Paper to Understand where We are Today)
New Discourses ^ | 25 Dec, 2020 | JAMES LINDSAY

Posted on 01/01/2024 4:56:38 AM PST by MtnClimber

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1 posted on 01/01/2024 4:56:38 AM PST by MtnClimber
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The paper is very long and this is just an excerpt, but I urge everyone to save a copy and re-read it once a year as I am today. I posted this three years ago and many people responded that they thought it was the most important paper describing the left that they had ever read. I still think that it is for me. It is amazing how applicable it is to current events in society. I hope many will gain some insight from this paper in this new year. MC


2 posted on 01/01/2024 4:56:54 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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BTTT


3 posted on 01/01/2024 5:10:36 AM PST by nopardons
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bkmk


4 posted on 01/01/2024 5:12:24 AM PST by linMcHlp
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what the world is witnessing today can be summed up more simply in a single phrase, “modern society...where “never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups” meets “crazy people don’t realize they are”. L.Star


5 posted on 01/01/2024 5:16:50 AM PST by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star )
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Thank you for posting it.


6 posted on 01/01/2024 5:17:12 AM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: MtnClimber

Well worth the read. Pseudo-reality certainly describes any belief that a person can be the opposite sex of their DNA. We have businesses and government trying to make it a fireable offense or even a crime not to pretend that a person can be the opposite sex.


7 posted on 01/01/2024 5:18:21 AM PST by Freee-dame
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Only the really smart people know what is real.


8 posted on 01/01/2024 5:21:08 AM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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Only the really smart people know what is real.

Like the professors at Harvard?

9 posted on 01/01/2024 5:23:28 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Bttt. Happy New Year!


10 posted on 01/01/2024 5:24:54 AM PST by Track9 (You are far too inquisitive not to be seduced…)
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For later.

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11 posted on 01/01/2024 5:32:54 AM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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The original paper of 56 pages is available online as a PDF, should one wish to read it:

Abuse of Language -- Abuse of Power

https://ia801708.us.archive.org/25/items/abuse-of-language-abuse-of-power-josef-pieper/abuse-of-language-abuse-of-power-josef-pieper.pdf

Best wishes.

12 posted on 01/01/2024 5:36:49 AM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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“Like the professors at Harvard?”

Many years ago I realized there was a huge difference between smart people and the educated. The professors at Harvard are the educated.

Smart people are those that are creative in nature and are good at problem solving. It used to be smart people entered the STEM fields. Many blue collar technical fields have smart people.

The left is full of the educated. The Harvard professors are highly educated parading around quite arrogantly as smart people. Journalists are at the very bottom of the educated in terms of being smart.

Our society is geared towards believing educated and smart are one in the same. If one is not educated, there’s no way he can be smart.

Just my opinion.


13 posted on 01/01/2024 5:44:12 AM PST by redfreedom (Joseph Stalin: "It does not mater how anyone votes, how votes are counted is what matters.")
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Extremely accurate…..for the 1940s.

True of Hitler and Marx and their true believers.

There are groups in the US who suffer from this.

The radical environmentalists. LGBTQ. Anarchists.

The criminals have risen to the top and control the Democrat Party.

The leaders of the Democrat Party are interested in the trappings of wealth for themselves, their families and their friends.

You do not see the Bidens or the Clintons or the Obamas or the Pelosi’s or George Soros living in one room apartments printing flyers calling for revolution.

They want wealth and immunity from prosecution for their filthy lifestyles.


14 posted on 01/01/2024 5:51:23 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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This article goes hand in hand with Mattias Desmet’s work titled “THE PSYCHOLOGY OF TOTALITARIANISM”.

~25% are the hard core brainwashed- they steadfastly believe, endorse and promote the lies.
~60% are the go along to get along-intuitively, they are aware of the lies, but are silent, not wanting conflict.
~15% are in absolute defiance to the lies- they are vocal in denouncing the lies.

The battle to defeat the lies is within the middle 60%. They are the ones, once activated to speak the truth, who prevent the liars from implementing totalitarian schemes. If they remain silent, the lies continue.

The first group will never change from their programming. EVER.


15 posted on 01/01/2024 6:07:29 AM PST by SheepWhisperer (Get involved with, or start a home fellowship group. It will be the final church. ACTS 2:42-47)
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This explanation would certainly explain the left's rabid opposition to DJT.

Despite all of his faults, he's the guy who takes delight in tearing down all of the artificial shibboleths they have created for themselves.

16 posted on 01/01/2024 6:07:44 AM PST by Captain Walker ("It is infinitely better to have a few good Men, than many indifferent ones." - George Washington)
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Some people think it is not possible to know what is real at all. I have read Joseph Pieper’s book Leisure. Good read.


17 posted on 01/01/2024 6:16:19 AM PST by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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I’ll check it out.


18 posted on 01/01/2024 6:29:55 AM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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19 posted on 01/01/2024 6:32:14 AM PST by gattaca (Once a nation loses control of its borders, it is no longer a nation...Ronald Reagan)
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All this work, going all the way back to 1945, leads to Bandy X Lee MD and her colleagues writing books about the dangerous craziness of Trump and MAGA people and how they all need forced psychiatric treatment.

It’s pseudoscientific nonsense.

The roots of Germany 1933-1945 were in Germany 1918-1933, not in psychopathology.

How America gets fixed, if she gets fixed, will require a lot of outside the box thinking, and the people who do the fixing will be attacked using these ideas.


20 posted on 01/01/2024 6:36:27 AM PST by Jim Noble (The future belongs to those who show upqa)
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