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carolinayellowdog

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2. Every one of those quotes strikes me as insightful and profound

Reply to rug (Reply #1)

Fri Dec 5, 2014, 06:23 PM

Dec 2014

Writing as he did during the rise of totalitarian states and dealing professionally with individuals in distress gave him a deep understanding of the relationship between individual and social pathologies. The kinds of certainties people cling to now to escape from freedom, and the kind of human destructiveness we see in 21st century online pathological behavior, may be different from those he described, but seem illustrative of the themes he addressed 50-75 years ago. Propaganda and groupthink are in some ways subtler and more sophisticated now, but no less powerful.

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The Authoritarian Personality vs. the historian of religion [View all] carolinayellowdog Dec 2014 OP

Fifty years ago he wrote a humanist Credo. rug Dec 2014 #1

Every one of those quotes strikes me as insightful and profound carolinayellowdog Dec 2014 #2