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R.R. Reno
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June 27 - July 6, 2020
“prejudiced” mentality,
“unprejudiced,” liberal ...
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which fosters a more welcomin...
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Authoritarian Personality.
“No politico-social trend imposes a graver threat to our traditional values and institutions than does fascism,”
In order to save the patient they must kill him then recreate them with out traditional values.
What makes a person a “potential fascist”?
How can we prevent young people in the United States from being socialized into the authoritarian mindset?
emerging postwar consensus.
The potential fascist is an American who was raised in a hierarchical family with black-and-white rules. His outlook on life is characterized by “conventionality” and “rigidity.”
right-versu...
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“the dichotomous conception o...
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“prejudiced outlook,”
affectionate,
egalitarian,
permissive interpersonal rela...
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“greater flexibility” and adopts a more accepting disposition toward others.
It embodies the virtues of an open society.
How can we prevent World War III?
Attention turns, therefore, to children.
new principles attuned to the dangers of a “prejudiced outlook”
scientific understanding
bad
effects of traditional so...
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on the political-cultural tendencies...
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were commissioned to develop new anti-authoritarian norms and institutions.
negative piety,
critique and self-questioning over conviction.
warm gestures
open-ended ideals—“behaving
behaving realist...
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“self-ins...
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“being fully ...
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Woke. The new code word for self-insight without piety.
are versions of the postwar rhetoric that develops open-ended, fuzzy substitutes for word...
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the psychological oppression of self-limiting prejudices and personality traits.
The Open Society and Its Enemies.
disenchantment
disenchantment
“critical thinking” as an indispensable cultural therapy, necessary to prevent the development of the authoritarian personality and forestall the return of totalitarianism.
changed meaning of dise...
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powerful forces underlying human affairs,
psychological well-being.
therapeutic,
two main human instincts.
sexual satisfaction.
aggressive and seeks d...
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hostile
flourish.
As George Washington noted in his Farewell Address, religion and morality are “the great pillars of human happiness” and together serve as “the necessary spring of popular government.”
postwar therapy of disenchantment rather than the older reliance on the backstop of religion and morality.
